The fact that brain regions that are involved in oculomotor programming are implied in mental arithmetic, as demonstrated by Knops et al. (2009), may be a good starting point. It shows that spatial processing mechanisms are involved in exploring a mental representation that is spatially defined....
Although the cortical and subcortical areas that are involved have been studied initially as saccade control areas, the activations on these maps do more than just indicate or point at a target’s location for purposes of programming a saccade. Each activation also indexes the location of that ...
The growing global burden of mental illness has prompted calls for innovative research strategies. Theoretical models of mental health include complex contributions of biological, psychosocial, experiential, and other environmental influences. Accordingly, neuropsychiatric research has self-organized into largely...
Spatial reasoning is a field dealing with the reasoning or the cognition about space. It is concerned about the spatial and temporal representations. The spatial representations are topology, orientation, distance, size and shape. The process of spatial reasoning can be told in three steps; one pr...
The experimental setup consisted of a virtual-reality (VR) headset with an external head-tracking camera (Oculus-Rift DK2), headphones, and two hand-held motion-tracked controllers with a magnetic-field base-station (Razer Hydra). The VR experiment was developed using the C# programming language...
Computational psychiatry is a rapidly growing field attempting to translate advances in computational neuroscience and machine learning into improved outcomes for patients suffering from mental illness. It encompasses both data-driven and theory-driven e
and spatial reasoning has generally been found to be as good as, and often better than, the answer given by any of the individuals within the group.”;collective intelligence;bandwagon effect— “a phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, fads and trends increases the more ...
since different cognitive activities are connected with different regions of the brain (e.g., frontal regions for mental subtraction), it is possible to differentiate between them using EEG recorded from different regions. By programming the BCI to perform specific commands in response to specific me...
In this task, people are shown a diagram ofa mechanical system and are required to infer the motion of one of the system components on the basis of the spatial configu- ration of the system and information about how another component is moving. For example, in the sample item shown in ...
The dichotomy between data andprogramming, reflected in the contrast between static lexical items and dy-namic rules of grammar (as in Pinker’s“Words and Rules”approach, Pinkerand Prince 1988, 1994) has progressively given way to more integrative viewsof the lexicon as a dynamic store of ...