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Gestalt Principles of Perception
I have studied that Gestalt Principles are principles/laws of human perception that describe how humans group similar elements, recognize patterns, and simplify complex images when we perceive objects....
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What is the difference between Cognitive Bias and Cognitive distortion?
I was asked by my professor to give a presentation on the topic "Cognitive biases and distortions" and during my prep I had this question. Could anyone please shed some light?
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Does the brain possess mechanisms to spot a feedback loop of self-induced negative sensation and relief?
Imagine a person has random psychosomatic itching and applies an ointment which brings relief. Could their brain wrongly assosiate the process that causes the itching as good as it brought relief?
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Is there any categorization of cognitive abilities based on brain structure and biology? [closed]
I'm pretty sure that the answer to the following question is yes :
Is there any categorization of cognitive abilities based on brain structure and biology?
However, because I'm a newbie, I'm kind of ...
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Predicting the individual effects of psychotropic drugs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/23796468/
I have searched the national library of medicine but I could not find any papers about predicting both the therapeutic and adverse effects on the ...
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What is a effective and interactive exercise to demonstrate cognition to a class
I'm new to this site so I may mess up here and there with the question process.
I need to come up with an interactive exercise for a class to demonstrate cognition. The problem is, I find cognition ...
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By which neuronal mechanisms does music make us happy or sad?
There are brain regions (X) that show stronger activation for joyful music, regions (Y) that show stronger activation for sad music, and regions (Z) that show similar activation for both.
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How does the neocortex distinguish between perception and imagination?
From my understanding, the neocortex performs both perception and imagination/planning within the same hierarchical structure. During perception, an area of the neocortex receives current input from ...
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How often are complex networks and graph theory useful in computational neuroscience?
Complex networks and graph theory seem like they would be important for computational neuroscience, but they don't come up in the literature as often as I would expect. I'm wondering how frequently ...
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Which is more important for computational neuroscience: differential equations or linear algebra? [closed]
I know that they are both used in computational neuroscience. However, I am trying to optimize my studying, so it might be useful to know which to focus more time upon, at least in the beginning.
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How does the brain structure 3D visual data?
Adobe Illustrator has taken over five minutes (and counting) to render a vector 2D image rotated 18° in 3D on my computer. And yet, I and nearly anyone else can easily visualize the subject rotated ...
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I need good introductory texts/publications on brain networks and functional integration/segregation
I am a soon to be graduating applied mathematician interviewing for a research position soon in a lab considered with neurological imaging and association of brain networks with things like aging, ...
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What cognitive architectures out there combine multiple sensor streams?
It seems like most cognitive architectures are evaluated on toy problems that do not challenge more than one sense (usually the visual one). What neuronal cognitive architectures were evaluated in the ...
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How can higher concepts get unrolled with upward and feedback connections differing?
In the neocortex, input patterns are compressed hierarchically. Sensory inputs in the lower levels are combined by higher levels to form abstract concepts. However, there are even more feedback ...
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Reciting Reverse Order Alphabet vs Reverse Order Counting
Observation A:
It's easy to recite the alphabet. It's hard to recite the alphabet backwards.
Observation B:
It's easy to recite the number 1 to 26. It's easy to recite the number 1 to 26 backwards.
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