Questions tagged [cognition]
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“Dyslexia” in reasoning?
I was trying to use logical argument with a friend of mine recently, and found that she was missing my point and completely misunderstanding my position. So I wonder if there is something like ...
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Are AR Luria's results on abstract/concrete thought repeatable?
In a famous survey, AR Luria showed that Russian farmers thought in very concrete ways, refusing to follow abstract ways of thought. This was research done in the 60s, however, under a heavy Marxist ...
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Can you improve your intelligence by practising? [duplicate]
According to this article
https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3869
your intelligence as an adult is to 80 % determined by genetics:
Despite the well-known difference in twin-based heritability for ...
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What does it mean statistically for there to be significant differences in average IQ scores between racial groups?
Charles Murray (in his book, "The Bell Curve") reported that there are real differences between the mean IQ scores of different racial groups. He also points out that IQ variation within said groups ...
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Effect of antihistamines vs antimuscarinics on cognitive processes
There are studies that suggest that long term use of anticholinergics (ACs) may cause cognitive decline and dementia.
And the short term effects of ACs on memory are known for sure.
Now, the question ...
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saccadic countermanding task
The saccadic countermanding task is used to measure response inhibition (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698999000115).
It is basically the stop-signal task that makes use of ...
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Does learning (to play) music increase IQ?
In one fairly cited study by E. Glenn Schellenberg (~800 citations in Google Scholar) we find that
Compared with children in the control groups, children in the music groups exhibited greater ...
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Effect of compactness of notation on cognition?
I vaguely remember reading somewhere that one of the reasons that the Romans failed to make any mathematical achievements is that their number system is illogical and does not lend itself to trivial ...
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Efficiency of multitasking depending on task difficulty
How does the efficiency of multi-tasking differ by task type? My understanding is that multitasking impairs efficiency for cognitively challenging tasks.
Does this apply to trivial tasks as well?
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In I.Q. and Cognitive Tests, What Sequence Patterns Should be Applied?
Nearly every I.Q. and Cognitive test seems to ask questions for the "next item in the sequence". But, there just seems to be so many possibilities, and I can usually find a way that all of the ...
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Which is more true about learning? [closed]
I think / guess using multiple sources for education / learning is much better than using one source; I mean by source, visual, auditory, etc...
So at best I could learn from a person face-to-face, ...
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How does the brain process generalizations?
What is the current thinking on how the brain processes generalizations? For example, the abstract idea of a right angled triangle vs specific instances of right angled triangles? Or the general idea ...
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Does taking antidepressants, anxiolytics and sleep pills significantly affect a person's intelligence?
Do antidepressants, anxiolytics and sleeping pills significantly affect the intelligence of a person, for example as expressed by the general (g) factor? Do these compounds affect the g factor each ...
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What is the difference between emotions, intuition and affect?
From what I know, intuition is affect-based. But how do they differ?
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Short term effects of alcohol on IQ
I am looking for some references on the short term effects of alcohol on "IQ". I am particularly interested in what aspects of "intelligence" is affected (e.g., cognition/reasoning/memory). ...
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Megalomania versus schizophrenia [closed]
Why is megalomania a part of schizophrenia, the latter having to do with personality splits, as opposed to being a disorder of its own. According to Polya's book, thinking big is one of the thinking ...
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Is it possible that people perceive time differently than others do?
All of my life I have been told to be more patient, to stop "racing through life", etc. Happily, I am finally mature enough to accept that as solid advice, but I am curious as to whether it is ...
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Environmental cleanliness: what is cognitively fresh?
The concept of freshness has developed over the last century to involve a range of sensations and responses to tastes, smells and feelings associated with foods, the environment and cleaning products. ...
