Abstract Stephen M. Kosslyn is Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and an Associate Psychologist in the Department of Neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He received his B.A. in 1970 from UCLA and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1974, both in psychology, and taught at Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and Brandeis Universities before joining the Harvard Faculty as Professor o...

Specific learning disabilities are a class of disorders that arise from neurodevelopmental abnormalities. The social–emotional processing disorder (SEPD), which has also been referred to as the non-verbal learning disability and the right-hemisphere learning disability, is a syndrome thought to arise from congenitally or early acquired damage to the right hemisphere.1 It is characterized by a h...

In recent years, neuroscientists have shown an increasing interest in magic. One reason for this is the parallels that can be drawn between concepts that have long been discussed in magic theory, particularly misdirection, and those that are routinely studied in cognitive neuroscience, such as attention and, as argued in this essay, different forms of memory. A second and perhaps more attractiv...

EDITORIAL article Front. Neurosci., 12 July 2023Sec. Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Volume 17 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2023.1235627

Cognitive neuroscience was born in the 1990’s amid a technological explosion that produced powerful new methods for noninvasively studying the human brain, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). These exciting new technologies revolutionized the scientific study of the mind, giving unprecedented observability into the neural processes...

There are two divergent concepts relating to the neural basis of emotional behaviour and experience. One view holds that emotional experience is a by product of neural computations associated with processing of value-laden stimuli.1 An alternative view proposes a specific functional anatomy based on observations that deficits in emotional experience may ensue in patients with specific brain les...

Reasoning in the activity of evaluating arguments. All arguments involve the claim that one or more propositions (the premise) provide some grounds for accepting another proposition (the conclusion). Philosophers have sorted arguments into two broad categories – induction and deduction – based on the nature of the relationship between premise and conclusion. Valid deductive arguments involve th...

We recorded ERPs to pairs of externally presented tones, T1 and T2, in the absence of attentional cues to determine whether attention is momentarily sustained at the location of a behaviourally relevant sound, and what effect this focusing of attention might have on the neural response to target stimuli. ERPs to T2 were more negative when the preceding T1 was presented on the same side of ®xati...

While studies on temporal information processing traditionally focused on psychophysical aspects,1 more recent work on temporal information processing has concentrated on cognitive aspects such as memory and attention. Two main models of temporal information processing have evolved: ‘storage size’ models consider subjective sensation of duration to be a by-product of general information process...

The number of reports on the cognitive neuroscience of aging has increased in recent years, and most of these studies have found many similarities in the patterns of activity in young and old adults, indicating that basic neural mechanisms are maintained into older age. Despite these overall similarities, older adults often have less activity in some regions, such as medial temporal areas durin...