Brain plasticity allows the central nervous system of a given organism to cope with environmental demands. Therefore, the quality of mental processes relies partly on the interaction between the brain's physiological maturation and individual daily experiences. In this review, we focus on the neural implementation of musical expertise at both an anatomical and a functional level. We then discus...

This contribution presents a computational cognitive model of imaginal perspective taking (IPT). The model is shown to account for major effects observed in IPT as well as concrete human data from an IPT experiment. Model development was based on the observation that control mechanisms play a central role in IPT performance. In taking this approach, model development and the model itself reveal...

Cognitive aging has positive and negative effects on mental abilities. With time and experience, we gain new knowledge and skills. We become wiser. However, for most adults cognitive aging also brings slower mental processing, reduced mental flexibility, increased susceptibility to distraction, and more difficulty learning new things. As an example, the amount of detail recalled from a short st...

Reading comprehension can be described as the result of a successful interaction of a reader with a text. Schema theory and linguistic theory are valuable for what they have to say about the parties to that interaction. Both bodies of theory have influenced cognitive psychologists’ descriptions of the mental processes involved in comprehension (cf. Richgels, 1982). A brief description of each w...

This paper describes a relatively simple way of allowing a brain model to selforganise its concept patterns through nested structures. For a simulation, time reduction is helpful and it would be able to show how patterns may form and then fire in sequence, as part of a search or thought process. It uses a very simple equation to show how the inhibitors in particular, can switch off certain area...

In his chapter in this volume, Timothy Williamson presents several arguments that seek to cast doubt on the idea that cognition can be factorized into internal and external components. In the first section of my chapter, I shall attempt to evaluate these arguments. My conclusion will be that these arguments establish several highly important points, but in the end these arguments fail to cast a...

This study evaluated 2 ELT textbooks (Four Corners, Book 2 and Four CornersBook 3) drawing on Bloom’s revised taxonomy (BRT); it examined the extent towhich these ELT textbooks could demonstrate the 6 cognitive categories of the BRT(i.e., remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating) intheir activities. To this end, content analysis was done to obtain the frequency ...