Search Results - "Cognition"

Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning by Pennycook, Gordon, Rand, David G.

“…•Participants rated perceived accuracy of fake and real news headlines.•Analytic thinking was associated with ability to discern between fake and real.•We…”
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A critical period for second language acquisition: Evidence from 2/3 million English speakers by Hartshorne, Joshua K., Tenenbaum, Joshua B., Pinker, Steven

“…Children learn language more easily than adults, though when and why this ability declines have been obscure for both empirical reasons (underpowered studies)…”
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People are averse to machines making moral decisions by Bigman, Yochanan E., Gray, Kurt

“…Do people want autonomous machines making moral decisions? Nine studies suggest that that the answer is ‘no’—in part because machines lack a complete mind…”
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Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories by Swami, Viren, Voracek, Martin, Stieger, Stefan, Tran, Ulrich S., Furnham, Adrian

“…•Analytic thinking reduces belief in conspiracy theories.•Stronger belief in conspiracy theories associated with lower analytic thinking.•Eliciting analytic…”
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Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure by Kirby, Simon, Tamariz, Monica, Cornish, Hannah, Smith, Kenny

“…•We provide a cultural evolutionary account of the origins of linguistic structure.•Cultural evolution delivers a trade-off between compressibility and…”
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Deconstructing the human algorithms for exploration by Gershman, Samuel J.

“…•Exploration algorithms can be distinguished in terms of the bias and slope of choice functions.•Two experiments show evidence for both directed and random…”
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Navigating a social world with robot partners: A quantitative cartography of the Uncanny Valley by Mathur, Maya B., Reichling, David B.

“…[Display omitted] •Likability ratings of a large sample of real robot faces had a robust Uncanny Valley.•Digitally composed robot face series demonstrated a…”
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The effect of word predictability on reading time is logarithmic by Smith, Nathaniel J., Levy, Roger

“…•Human reading time for words varies logarithmically with word probability.•This is predicted by a novel incremental processing model.•It is also partially…”
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Sacrificial utilitarian judgments do reflect concern for the greater good: Clarification via process dissociation and the judgments of philosophers by Conway, Paul, Goldstein-Greenwood, Jacob, Polacek, David, Greene, Joshua D.

“…Researchers have used “sacrificial” trolley-type dilemmas (where harmful actions promote the greater good) to model competing influences on moral judgment:…”
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Fast logic?: Examining the time course assumption of dual process theory by Bago, Bence, De Neys, Wim

“…Influential dual process models of human thinking posit that reasoners typically produce a fast, intuitive heuristic (i.e., Type-1) response which might…”
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Direct and indirect influences of executive functions on mathematics achievement by Cragg, Lucy, Keeble, Sarah, Richardson, Sophie, Roome, Hannah E., Gilmore, Camilla

“…Achievement in mathematics is predicted by an individual’s domain-specific factual knowledge, procedural skill and conceptual understanding as well as…”
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The essential moral self by Strohminger, Nina, Nichols, Shaun

“…•Not all parts of the mind contribute equally to judgments of personal identity.•Memory and distinguishing features contribute less to identity than moral…”
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Cognitive science in the era of artificial intelligence: A roadmap for reverse-engineering the infant language-learner by Dupoux, Emmanuel

“…•Key theoretical puzzles of infant language development are still unsolved.•A roadmap for reverse engineering infant language learning using AI is proposed.•AI…”
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Lack of selectivity for syntax relative to word meanings throughout the language network by Fedorenko, Evelina, Blank, Idan Asher, Siegelman, Matthew, Mineroff, Zachary

“…To understand what you are reading now, your mind retrieves the meanings of words and constructions from a linguistic knowledge store (lexico-semantic…”
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Differential benefits of mental training types for attention, compassion, and theory of mind by Trautwein, Fynn-Mathis, Kanske, Philipp, Böckler, Anne, Singer, Tania

“…Mindfulness- and, more generally, meditation-based interventions increasingly gain popularity, effectively promoting cognitive, affective, and social…”
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Feeling robots and human zombies: Mind perception and the uncanny valley by Gray, Kurt, Wegner, Daniel M.

“…The uncanny valley—the unnerving nature of humanlike robots—is an intriguing idea, but both its existence and its underlying cause are debated. We propose that…”
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An initial accuracy focus prevents illusory truth by Brashier, Nadia M., Eliseev, Emmaline Drew, Marsh, Elizabeth J.

“…News stories, advertising campaigns, and political propaganda often repeat misleading claims, increasing their persuasive power. Repeated statements feel…”
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‘Utilitarian’ judgments in sacrificial moral dilemmas do not reflect impartial concern for the greater good by Kahane, Guy, Everett, Jim A.C., Earp, Brian D., Farias, Miguel, Savulescu, Julian

“…•‘Utilitarian’ judgments in moral dilemmas were associated with egocentric attitudes and less identification with humanity.•They were also associated with…”
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Stronger shared taste for natural aesthetic domains than for artifacts of human culture by Vessel, Edward A., Maurer, Natalia, Denker, Alexander H., Starr, G. Gabrielle

“…•Aesthetic judgments of faces and natural landscapes show high “shared taste.”•Aesthetic judgments of paintings and architecture vary more across…”
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A new look at joint attention and common knowledge by Siposova, Barbora, Carpenter, Malinda

“…Everyone agrees that joint attention is a key feature of human social cognition. Yet, despite over 40 years of work and hundreds of publications on this topic,…”
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