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How does goal-tracking and sign-tracking behaviour vary across species?
In Pavlonian (classical) conditioning, conditioned responses of an animal may vary. Some animals focus on the unconditioned stimulus (ie. food/location of food) while others may focus on the ...
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Publicly available social networks in apes and hunter-gatherer societies
Social network analysis is an indiscpensable tool for sociology, and is becoming increasing popular in anthropology, social-psychology and other fields. There are many papers that examine the ...
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What are the neurological differences between varying types of love?
It stands to reason that the biochemical cascade involved when a person experiences love, gives a feeling of well-being and drive.
Studies in neuroscience have involved chemicals that are present ...
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Does female attractiveness correlate with age progression?
I'm interested in Evolutionary Psychology and the male perception of female beauty. One of the ideas I'm trying to investigate is the correlation between female fertility and her attractiveness. A ...
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Difference between Logan's Instance theory and Exemplar-Based Random Walk (EBRW) theory
I'm trying to find a clear explanation of the difference between Logan's instance theory (Logan, 2002) and the Exemplar-Based Random Walk theory (Nosofsky & Palmari, 1997). Am I mistaken that they ...
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Is the symbolic meaning of dark/black and light/white innate in humans?
Dark/black and light/white have symbolic meanings(1, 2). Dark/black represents, among others: Grief, evil, mystery (often with hidden threats), lack of knowledge, etc. Light/white represtents, among ...
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Non-computational models of cognition
There is a question on this site that asks a somewhat related question, whether there are non-physical models for cognition. However, that question still assumes a computational paradigm for the non-...
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If stimulus triggers dopamine release, can dopamine release trigger memory recall of stimulus?
Modern science of sleep is starting to lean towards a viewpoint that dopamine has an important function in dreaming, and that dopaminergic pathways - mesolimbic and mesocortical are activated during ...
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What is the effect of displayed online personal identifiers on online communication?
Online interaction provides an interesting avenue for experiment and experience. People are able to hide or fabricate their personal details including age, sex, and appearance.
For the purposes of ...
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Transgenderism and personality
Has any research been conducted to study how individuals may vary on personality inventories, for example, the Big Five, based on whether they are cisgender versus transgender?
Broadly, inquiry may ...
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Is Autism associated with an increased drowning risk for adults?
I have found several popular articles (e.g. ScienceDaily, The Globe and Mail, and WebMD) indicating that children with Autism have a significantly elevated risk of drowning. The general theory seems ...
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EEGlab: power spectral density from a single EEG lead
I was trying to get power spectral density of a time-series data. The sleep recording software we use, doesn't allow to export EDF format of an interval, only of the whole record, but it allows to ...
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Have there been any recent replications of the Hofling hospital experiment?
In the original Hofling hospital experiment (1966):
A person would telephone a nurse, saying that he was a doctor and
giving a fictitious name, asking the nurse to administer 20 mg of a
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How do people choose at random?
This question is inspired by one asked at MathOverflow. (These questions at Cognitive Sciences and at Cross Validated might also be relevant.)
Are there any studies on what choices humans commonly ...
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Supplementary Motor Area or Juxtapositional Lobule Cortex
Harvard-Oxford Cortical Structural Atlas now calls the 'Supplementary Motor Area' the 'Juxtapositional Lobule Cortex (formerly Supplementary Motor Cortex)'. I've looked for papers that explain the ...
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