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Seeing is believing: the effect of brain images on judgments of scientific reasoning.
David P. McCabe,Alan D. Castel +1 more
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It is argued that brain images are influential because they provide a physical basis for abstract cognitive processes, appealing to people's affinity for reductionistic explanations of cognitive phenomena.About:
This article is published in Cognition.The article was published on 2008-04-01. It has received 543 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cognitive neuropsychology & Cognitive neuroscience.read more
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The seductive allure of neuroscience explanations
TL;DR: The neuroscience information had a particularly striking effect on nonexperts' judgments of bad explanations, masking otherwise salient problems in these explanations.
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Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation:
Nicholas T. Van Dam,Marieke K. van Vugt,David R. Vago,Laura Schmalzl,Clifford D. Saron,Andrew Olendzki,Ted Meissner,Sara W. Lazar,Catherine E. Kerr,Jolie Gorchov,Kieran C. R. Fox,Brent A. Field,Willoughby B. Britton,Julie A. Brefczynski-Lewis,David E. Meyer +14 more
TL;DR: The difficulties of defining mindfulness are discussed, the proper scope of research into mindfulness practices is delineated, and crucial methodological issues for interpreting results from investigations of mindfulness are explained.
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Do “Brain-Training” Programs Work?:
Daniel J. Simons,Walter R. Boot,Neil Charness,Susan E. Gathercole,Christopher F. Chabris,David Z. Hambrick,Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow +6 more
TL;DR: Extensive evidence that brain-training interventions improve performance on the trained tasks, less evidence that such interventions improved performance on closely related tasks, and little evidence that training enhances performance on distantly related tasks or that training improves everyday cognitive performance are found.
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Psychopathic Personality Bridging the Gap Between Scientific Evidence and Public Policy
TL;DR: This comprehensive review addresses what psychopathy is, whether variants or subtypes exist, the sorts of causal influences that contribute to psychopathy, how early in development psychopathy can validly be identified, and how psychopathy relates to future criminal behavior and treatment outcomes and provides an integrative descriptive framework--the triarchic model--to help the reader make sense of differing conceptualizations.
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Adolescent maturity and the brain: the promise and pitfalls of neuroscience research in adolescent health policy
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize what is known about adolescent brain development and what remains unknown, as well as what neuroscience can and cannot tell us about the adolescent brain and behavior.
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Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences
TL;DR: The concepts of power analysis are discussed in this paper, where Chi-square Tests for Goodness of Fit and Contingency Tables, t-Test for Means, and Sign Test are used.
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Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data
TL;DR: It is argued that cognitive neuroscientists should be circumspect in the use of reverse inference, particularly when selectivity of the region in question cannot be established or is known to be weak.
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Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again
TL;DR: In this article, an attempt to study the peer-review process directly, in the natural setting of actual journal referee evaluations of submitted manuscripts, was made. But the results showed that only three (8%) of the 38 editors and reviewers detected the resubmissions.
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Representation in Scientific Practice
Michael Lynch,Steve Woolgar +1 more
TL;DR: The essays in this paper provide an excellent introduction to the means by which scientists convey their ideas, and the essays are unified in asserting that scientists compose and use particular representations in contextually organized and contextually sensitive ways, and that these representations depend for their meaning on the complex activities in which they are situated.