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Toward aitiopoietic cognition: bridging the evolutionary divide between biological and machine-learned causal systems. 朝向人造认知：弥合生物和机器学习因果系统之间的进化鸿沟。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-17 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1618381

Tomas Veloz

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Editorial: Rising stars in cognition: 2023/4. 社论：认知领域的新星：2023/4。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-10 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1644789

Melissa R Beck, George R Mangun

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The role of short-term memory, type of practice and metacognitive judgments in predicting cognitive offloading. 短期记忆、练习类型和元认知判断在预测认知卸载中的作用。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-07-04 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1595956

Dan Chiappe, Kim-Phuong L Vu, Michelle Tornquist

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Robot pouring: identifying causes of spillage and selecting alternative action parameters using probabilistic actual causation. 机器人浇注：识别溢出原因，并根据概率实际原因选择备选动作参数。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-20 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1565059

Jaime Maldonado, Jonas Krumme, Christoph Zetzsche, Vanessa Didelez, Kerstin Schill

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Individual differences in brain attention networks: the challenge of indexing temporal change. 大脑注意网络的个体差异：索引时间变化的挑战。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-18 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1547773

Gerald Matthews, Almira Kustubayeva, Manzura Zholdassova, Gulnur Borbassova

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Editorial: Synthesizing memory: integrating across fields and levels of scale. 编辑：综合记忆：跨领域和规模水平的整合。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-17 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1637173

Marian E Berryhill, Lauren L Richmond

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Association between PFAS exposure and attention processing in adolescent boys: a pilot study. 青春期男孩PFAS暴露与注意加工的关系：一项初步研究。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-06-13 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1606956

Sharlene D Newman, Yanyu Xiong

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A comparison of methods to elicit causal structure. 引出因果结构的方法的比较。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-21 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1544387

Semir Tatlidil, Steven A Sloman, Semanti Basu, Tiffany Tran, Serena Saxena, Moon Hwan Kim, Iris Bahar

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Memory reconsolidation: a proposed change mechanism for the arts therapies. 记忆再巩固：一种艺术治疗的改变机制。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-15 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1518743

Noah Hass-Cohen, Jennifer C Clay

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Inattention over time-on-task: the role of motivation in mitigating temporal increases in media multitasking. 任务时间上的注意力不集中：动机在减轻媒体多任务处理时间增加中的作用。

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Frontiers in Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-06 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fcogn.2025.1547295

Allison C Drody, Effie J Pereira, James Danckert, Daniel Smilek

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