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COGSCI
2010
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Beyond Core Knowledge: Natural Geometry
For many centuries, philosophers and scientists have pondered the origins and nature of human intuitions about the properties of points, lines, and figures on the Euclidean plane,...
Elizabeth S. Spelke, Sang Ah Lee, Véronique...
COGSCI
2010
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Network Structure Influences Speech Production
Network science provides a new way to look at old questions in cognitive science by examining the structure of a complex system, and how that structure might influence processing....
Kit Ying Chan, Michael S. Vitevitch
COGSCI
2008
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13 years 3 months ago
Exemplars, Prototypes, Similarities, and Rules in Category Representation: An Example of Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis
This article demonstrates the potential of using hierarchical Bayesian methods to relate models and data in the cognitive sciences. This is done using a worked example that consid...
Michael D. Lee, Wolf Vanpaemel
COGSCI
2008
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From Universal Laws of Cognition to Specific Cognitive Models
Nick Chater, Gordon D. A. Brown
COGSCI
2010
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The Logical Problem of Language Acquisition: A Probabilistic Perspective
Natural language is full of patterns that appear to fit with general linguistic rules but are ungrammatical. There has been much debate over how children acquire these ‘‘ling...
Anne S. Hsu, Nick Chater
COGSCI
2010
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Five Reasons to Doubt the Existence of a Geometric Module
It is frequently claimed that the human mind is organized in a modular fashion, a hypothesis linked historically, though not inevitably, to the claim that many aspects of the huma...
Alexandra D. Twyman, Nora S. Newcombe
COGSCI
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Congruity Effects in Time and Space: Behavioral and ERP Measures
Ursina Teuscher, Marguerite McQuire, Jennifer Coll...
COGSCI
2008
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Understanding Mortality and the Life of the Ancestors in Rural Madagascar
Across two studies, a wide age range of participants was interviewed about the nature of death. All participants were living in rural Madagascar in a community where ancestral bel...
Rita Astuti, Paul L. Harris
COGSCI
2008
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Using fMRI to Test Models of Complex Cognition
This article investigates the potential of fMRI to test assumptions about different components in models of complex cognitive tasks. If the components of a model can be associated...
John R. Anderson, Cameron S. Carter, Jon M. Fincha...