Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "cognition"
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The Cognitive Consequences of Emotion Regulation: An ERP Investigation
(Blackwell Publishers, 2008)Increasing evidence suggests that emotion regulation (ER) strategies modulate encoding of information presented during regulation; however, no studies have assessed the impact of cognitive reappraisal ER strategies on the ... -
Culture, Cognition, and Collaborative Networks in Organizations
(SAGE Publications, 2011)This article examines the interplay of culture, cognition, and social networks in organizations with norms that emphasize cross-boundary collaboration. In such settings, social desirability concerns can induce a disparity ... -
Functional Connectivity in Multiple Cortical Networks Is Associated with Performance Across Cognitive Domains in Older Adults
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., 2015)Abstract Intrinsic functional connectivity MRI has become a widely used tool for measuring integrity in large-scale cortical networks. This study examined multiple cortical networks using Template-Based Rotation (TBR), a ... -
How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United States
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)The essay discusses the impact of Bourdieu on modern U.S. sociology. Specifically, I offer five observations about the reception and adoption of Bourdieu by U.S. sociologists from the perspective of someone who was involved ... -
Human Adaptation to the Control of Fire
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)Charles Darwin attributed human evolutionary success to three traits. Our social habits and anatomy were important, he said, but the critical feature was our intelligence, because it led to so much else, including such ... -
Infants' and toddlers' reasoning about others: Connections to prosocial development and language
(2014-10-21)Often overlooked in the study of theory of mind (ToM) development, the understanding of motivational states, such as goals and desires, is both an important capacity in its own right and also a likely precursor to more ... -
Managing in the Face of Ambiguity and Uncertainty: The Problems of Interpretation and Coordination in Juvenile Justice Organizations
(2012-10-31)Drawing on field work at three different juvenile justice organizations, this dissertation explores the joint problems of interpretation and coordination in the face of problems marked by moral ambiguity and practical ... -
Memory: sins and virtues
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)Memory plays an important role in everyday life but does not provide an exact and unchanging record of experience: research has documented that memory is a constructive process that is subject to a variety of errors and ... -
The Neuroscience of Intergroup Relations
(SAGE Publications, 2014)We review emerging research on the psychological and biological factors that underlie social group formation, cooperation, and conflict in humans. Our aim is to integrate the intergroup neuroscience literature with classic ... -
Reward Learning, Neurocognition, Social Cognition, and Symptomatology in Psychosis
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)Background: Patients with psychosis spectrum disorders exhibit deficits in social and neurocognition, as well as hallmark abnormalities in motivation and reward processing. Aspects of reward processing may overlap behaviorally ... -
Risk and Resilience of Refugee Children Surviving War and Displacement
(2021-11-16)Armed conflict and its aftermath cause undeniable harm to the mental health and education of children, posing multiple ongoing threats to their survival and rights. The average length of displacement for a refugee today ... -
Segregated Fronto-Cerebellar Circuits Revealed by Intrinsic Functional Connectivity
(Oxford University Press, 2009)Multiple, segregated fronto-cerebellar circuits have been characterized in nonhuman primates using transneuronal tracing techniques including those that target prefrontal areas. Here, we used functional connectivity MRI ... -
Society in Mind: The manifestation of structural power and status differences in cognitive and regulatory domains.
(2014-06-06)Where one stands in society matters for how one feels, thinks, and behaves. This dissertation provides evidence for this claim from the perspective of universal psychological mechanisms used to navigate the social world. ... -
Splendor in the Grass? A Pilot Study Assessing the Impact of Medical Marijuana on Executive Function
(Frontiers Media S.A., 2016)Currently, 25 states and Washington DC have enacted full medical marijuana (MMJ) programs while 18 states allow limited access to MMJ products. Limited access states permit low (or zero) tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and high ... -
Surprise-induced exploration as a tool for learning: A comparative approach with human infants and non-human primates
(2022-09-13)Upon witnessing a surprising event, young humans will often explore the target of that surprise, appearing to seek an explanation (eg: Bonawitz et al., 2012; Chandler & Lalonde, 1994; Perez & Feigenson, 2022; Stahl & ...