Showing papers in "Cognition in 1989"

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of experiments designed to test these hypotheses, using the Wason selection task, a test of logical reasoning, were presented, and the experimental design included eight critical tests designed to choose between social exchange theory and these other two families of theories.

TL;DR: In this article, a theoretical framework for the understanding of the neural basis of memory and consciousness, at systems level, is proposed, which consists of neuron ensembles located in multiple and separate regions of primary and first-order sensory association cortices (early cortices) and motor cortices.

TL;DR: This paper hypothesizes a resource-limited mechanism, called a FINST, for individuating or indexing visual features, as distinct from encoding their type or location, and examines the possibility that such indexes might be used to bind perceived locations to arguments in motor commands, thereby allowing some forms of perceptual-motor coordination.

TL;DR: The proposed alignment method also uses abstract description, but unlike structural description methods it uses them pictorially, rather than in symbolic structural descriptions.

TL;DR: Three experiments are reported which show that in certain contexts subjects reject instances of the valid modus ponens and modus tollens inference form in conditional arguments and suggest that the interpretation of premises plays an even more central role in reasoning than has previously been admitted.

TL;DR: This research investigated the availability of lexical entries as a function of stimulus information and contextual constraint to suggest that sentential-semantic contexts have their effects during the process of selecting one of the activated candidates for recognition.

TL;DR: It is pointed out that the general demise of learning is uncontroversial in the biological sciences, while a similar consensus has not yet been reached in psychology and in linguistics at large.

TL;DR: Both suppression and enhancement improve referential access, and the contribution of these two mechanisms is a function of explicitness.

TL;DR: The results suggest that free-standing closed-class morphemes are not inherent components of the structural frames of English sentences.

TL;DR: Analyse critique and empirique de la theorie du schema pragmatique and de the theorie de l'echange sociale comme predicteurs du fait that les connaissances specifiques a la tache facilitent le raisonnement.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a model for the evolution of neuronal networks in the course of development and in the adult, which is epigenetic and does not require alteration of the structure of the genome.

TL;DR: The data show that beliefs both affect the examination of alternative models and act as a filter on putative conclusions, and it is shown how some types of problem and some problem contents make the existence ofAlternative models more obvious than others.

TL;DR: The bat's use of cross-correlation-like images reveals neural computations that achieve fusion of stimulus features and offers an example of high-level operations involved in the formation of perceptual "wholes".

TL;DR: A new version of the "problem of three prisoners" is reported, designed so that different inferential schemes would lead to separate estimates of posterior probability and suggests that the psychological processes of intuitive reasoning are qualitatively different from mathematical reasoning.

TL;DR: Model the process of solving knight-knave brain teasers by means of a simulation based on an earlier natural-deduction theory of reasoning, which shows that subjects were more likely to make mistakes and take longer to solve puzzles associated with a larger number of proof steps.

TL;DR: Current progress and emerging concepts derived from the simple system approach using animal models are discussed.

TL;DR: The results argue against any global theory of agrammatism that attempts to attribute all agrammatic speech and co-occurring syntactic comprehension deficits to the same source.

TL;DR: This paper presents a unified account of the meaning of the spatial relational terms right, left, in front of, behind, above and below, and claims that each term has three types of meanings, basic, deictic and intrinsic, and that the definitions of each type of meaning are identical in form for all six terms.

TL;DR: Some of the important capacities of speech perception are described and research from different domains that may help illuminate the nature of their biological foundations are examined.

TL;DR: The results demonstrated increased latencies after errors and decelerated heart rates and response latencies during the post-error period, explained by a psychophysiological model in which the septo-hippocampal system functions as a control system which coordinates the priority and selection of cognitive processes.

TL;DR: Three experiments in the present study have demonstrated that the findings in Bloom's sole interpretable experiment were artifacts due to a methodological flaw, revealing the inadequacy of Bloom's basic methodology and the limitation in the effects of linguistic relativity that may be possible at least theoretically.

TL;DR: Les auteurs repondent a des critiques formulees par Perner (1989) a propos de leur travail concernant la comprehension de la notion de croyance par des enfants de trois ans as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Reponse de l'auteur a propos d'un article de Wellman et Bartsch (1988) concernant la comprehension d'enfants de 3 ans des principes de the psychologie naive.

TL;DR: Inspection of abilities assumed to affect the illusory conjunctions phenomenon suggests that at the preattentive stage children can integrate spatially separate segments but lack the capacity to fully analyse connected segments.

TL;DR: Cognition brings to its readership a sample of instances in which theory in neurobiology has begun to become explanatory of complex behavioral processes, or in other words, a biologically consistent, realistic description of human cognition in the absence of interdisciplinary knowledge.

TL;DR: A classic view of the relation between sensorineural activity and perception has assumed that the former is somehow transformed into the latter at some locus in the brain, but this notion conflicts with the modern view that the activity of the nervous system is restricted to transmitting and processing information.

TL;DR: Les auteurs critiquent les conclusions d'une experience menee par Perner et Odgen (1986) qui montrait que des enfants de 3 ans n'ont pas l'aptitude d'inferer des etats «representationnels» (tels que the surprise).

TL;DR: L'auteur repond aux critiques faites par SIEGAL et SANDERSON (1989) selon lesquelles les resultats de ses travaux pourraient etre interpretes d'une maniere totalement differente.