Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01212-1
Barbara Landau
{"title":"Are spatial terms rooted in geometry or force-dynamics? Yes.","authors":"Barbara Landau","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01212-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01212-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theories of spatial term meanings often focus on geometric properties of objects and locations as the key to understanding meaning. For example, in English, \"The cat is on the mat\" might engage geometric properties characterizing the figure ('cat', a point) and the ground ('mat', a plane) as well as the geometric relationship between the two objects ('on', + vertical, 0 distance from ground object). However, substantial literature suggests that geometric properties are far from sufficient to capture the meanings of many spatial expressions, and that instead, force-dynamic properties of objects that afford containment or support relationships may be crucial to the meanings of those expressions. I will argue that both approaches are needed to understand the variety of spatial terms that appear in language and further, that spatial terms fall into two distinct sets, one represented by geometric properties of figure and ground and their spatial relationships, and the other by the force-dynamic properties of objects and their relationships. This division of labor within spatial terms has many consequences, with the two types differing in the nature of the acquisition problem and likely learning mechanisms, the extent and kind of cross-linguistic variation that has been observed, and the application of pragmatic principles to spatial terms. Speculatively, the two types may also be rooted in different cognitive systems and their neural substrates.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"85-90"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01182-4
Francisco Molins, Nour Ben-Hassen Jemni, Dolores Garrote-Petisco, Miguel Ángel Serrano
{"title":"Highly logical and non-emotional decisions in both risky and social contexts: understanding decision making in autism spectrum disorder through computational modeling.","authors":"Francisco Molins, Nour Ben-Hassen Jemni, Dolores Garrote-Petisco, Miguel Ángel Serrano","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01182-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01182-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In risky contexts, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) individuals exhibit more logical consistency and non-emotional decisions than do typical adults (TAs). This way of deciding could be also prevailing in social contexts, leading to maladaptive decisions. This evidence is scarce and inconsistent, and further research is needed. Recent developments in computational modeling allow analysis of decisional subcomponents that could provide valuable information to understand the decision-making and help address inconsistencies. Twenty-seven individuals with ASD and 25 TAs were submitted to a framing-task and the ultimatum game (UG). The Rescorla-Wagner computational model was used to analyze UG decisions. Results showed that in the UG, the ASD group exhibited a higher utilitarianism, characterized by lower aversion to unfairness and higher acceptance of offers. Moreover, this way of deciding was predicted by the higher economic rationality found in the framing task, where people with ASD did not manifest emotional biases such as framing effect. These results could suggest an atypical decision making, highly logical and non-emotional, as a robust feature of ASD.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"503-512"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11269346/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140289238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01184-2
Xiujie Yang, Jon R Star, Xiangyi Zhu, Rong Wang, Yan Zhang, Jiajin Tong, Zhonghui He
{"title":"Phonological awareness and RAN contribute to Chinese reading and arithmetic for different reasons.","authors":"Xiujie Yang, Jon R Star, Xiangyi Zhu, Rong Wang, Yan Zhang, Jiajin Tong, Zhonghui He","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01184-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01184-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The present study investigated how phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming (hereafter, RAN), simultaneously contributed to Chinese reading and arithmetic fluency. Specifically, we proposed a new hypothesized mechanism that processing speed would mediate the relations of RAN with Chinese reading and arithmetic fluency. One hundred and forty-five Chinese children at the fifth grade were administered with a battery of measures, including three phonological processing measures, character reading, and whole number computation, as well as nonverbal IQ, and vocabulary knowledge. Path analyses revealed that phonological awareness and RAN were uniquely related to character reading and arithmetic fluency, while phonological memory was not significantly correlated to either character reading or arithmetic fluency, after controlling for age, nonverbal IQ, and vocabulary knowledge. Further analysis indicated that processing speed demonstrated a mediating effect on the importance of RAN in character reading, rather than in arithmetic fluency. Results underscore the potential importance of phonological awareness and RAN in character reading and arithmetic fluency, and the mediating role of processing speed in RAN to promote Chinese character reading fluency.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"443-455"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140289239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01213-0
Steven J Luck, John E Kiat
{"title":"Visual working memory for natural scenes: challenges and opportunities.","authors":"Steven J Luck, John E Kiat","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01213-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01213-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual working memory is a fundamental cognitive process that people use thousands of times each day as they engage in visually guided behavior. Thus, it is important to understand how the natural visual input-which consists of complex, spatially organized, continuously varying features-is represented in visual working memory. However, most research has used arrays of discrete, artificial objects defined by simple features, and existing formal models of visual working memory cannot be applied to natural scenes. In this paper, we identify 3 key aspects of natural scenes that are not captured by existing formal models of visual working memory, along with 2 distinct types of attention that must be considered. The goal is to clearly define the challenges and opportunities for moving models of visual working memory from arrays of artificial objects to natural scenes.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"73-78"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11365787/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01215-y
Mohan Matthen
{"title":"Object perception: four arguments from philosophy.","authors":"Mohan Matthen","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01215-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01215-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"105-111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-05-07DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01193-1
Agnieszka Fusinska-Korpik, Michal Gacek
{"title":"Decision-making regarding social situations in people with intellectual disability at different stages of the decision-making process.","authors":"Agnieszka Fusinska-Korpik, Michal Gacek","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01193-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01193-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Decision-making capability is essential in fulfilling the need for autonomy of people with intellectual disability. In this study we aimed to examine decision-making capability regarding important social situations in people with intellectual disability at different stages of decision-making process. We studied 80 vocational school students with mild intellectual disability and 80 students of a similar age from mass vocation schools. We assessed decision-making with Important Life Decisions Task (ILDT). Students with intellectual disability obtained significantly lower scores than controls for each of the stories in ILDT as in each stage and overall final score in the decision-making process. The magnitude of difference in scores between groups varied in different stages of decision-making process. The most notable difficulties in decision-making regarding important social situations in people with intellectual disability are related to the evaluation of alternatives stage. Pattern of differences obtained in our study may be related to the content of decision-making problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"491-501"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11269429/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140877584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-08-10DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01216-x
Michael I Posner
{"title":"Orienting of attention and spatial cognition.","authors":"Michael I Posner","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01216-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01216-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Humans orient to their sensory world through foveation of target location or through covert shifts of attention. Orienting provides primacy to the selected location and in humans improves the precision of discrimination. Covert orienting appears to arise separately from the mechanisms involved in saccadic eye movements. Covert orienting can serve to prioritize processing the target even increasing its subjective intensity and its acuity. However, this network does not appear to be involved in the operations related to binding and segmentation. Cells exist in the early visual cortex that are activated by both color and form features without attention, however, color and form appear to remain independent even when oriented to the target that is required to be reported. An understanding of the pathways that connect attention networks to memory networks may allow us to understand more complex aspects of spatial cognition and enhance orienting and thus improve spatial cognition.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"55-59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141914257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-08-13DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01219-8
Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, Thomas Hünefeldt
{"title":"Introduction to the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Spatial Cognition: Segmentation and Binding in Spatial Cognition (ICSC 2024).","authors":"Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, Thomas Hünefeldt","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01219-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01219-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141972074","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cognitive ProcessingPub Date : 2024-08-01Epub Date: 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1007/s10339-024-01208-x
Jerome A Feldman
{"title":"Evolution, perception, and the mind.","authors":"Jerome A Feldman","doi":"10.1007/s10339-024-01208-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10339-024-01208-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The classical mind-body problem persists as one of the deepest scientific mysteries. Despite the grand claims of the new AI, some of the most basic facts of human vision cannot be explained by current or proposed theories of brain structure and function. This paper reviews some well-known mysteries including the neural binding problem, blind sight, subjective experience and prosthetics. There is continuing progress, but the core mysteries of the mind seem to require fundamental advances for any reductionist resolution.</p>","PeriodicalId":47638,"journal":{"name":"Cognitive Processing","volume":" ","pages":"91-95"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11364556/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142001017","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}