Auditory language comprehension is a multistage process relying on many different cognitive functions as an acoustic signal is perceived, parsed into subphonemic features, and the features synthesized into a semantically coherent utterance. In approximately 96% of right-handers and 70% of lefthanders, the left hemisphere is preferentially involved in the later (phonological and semantic) stages...

In the past few years connectionist models have greatly contributed to formulating theories of cognitive development. Some of these models follow the approach of developmental cognitive neuroscience in exploring interactions between brain development and cognitive development by integrating structural change into learning. We describe two classes of these models. The first focuses on experience...

Auditory attention has been examined extensively over the years, primarily by means of event-related brain potentials (ERPs). Sustained attention to specific targets embedded in a series of non-targets (e.g. the ‘oddball’ paradigm) causes an increase in the amplitudes of various components of the auditory ERP after about 80 ms and results in the appearance of new waveforms, such as the N2B and ...

This special issue explores the growing intersection between mathematical psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Mathematical psychology, and cognitive modeling more generally, has a rich history of formalizing and testing hypotheses about cognitive mechanisms within a mathematical and computational language, making exquisite predictions of how people perceive, learn, remember, and decide. Cogn...

The control of action and thought plays an important role in the organization of human behavior. Cognitive and neuropsychological theories have therefore proposed a cognitive system which guides behavior in novel or challenging situations. Theories of attention1 and of working memory2,3 have stressed the significance of an ‘executive control system’ in cognitive processing. According to Norman ...

Thirty years ago, grounded cognition had roots in philosophy, perception, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology, and cognitive neuropsychology. During the next 20 years, grounded cognition continued developing in these areas, and it also took new forms in robotics, cognitive ecology, cognitive neuroscience, and developmental psychology. In the past 10 years, research on...

Against the background of the organization of an EARLI Advanced Study Colloquium on Cognitive Neuroscience Meets Mathematics Education, we argued that the interdisciplinary field of neuroscience and education should be conceived as a two-way street with multiple bi-directional interactions between educational research and cognitive neuroscience (De Smedt et al., 2010a). In his response to our p...

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When in a bustling, raucous environment filled with noise, how can we still hear our name being called from across the room? How do you know when looking at a woman standing in front of you that she is your mother? Why is the written word so perplexing for some individuals to grasp? And what are the theoretical models, neural mechanisms, and anatomical substrates underlying such capabilities? T...

T paper introduces the idea of drawing upon the cognitive neuroscience literature to inform IS research (herein termed “NeuroIS”). Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience are uncovering the neural bases of cognitive, emotional, and social processes, and they offer new insights into the complex interplay between IT and information processing, decision making, and behavior among people, organiz...