Embodied cognition

How do we know what we know? That is a question that has been asked by many different people, and has many different explanations. These answers vary from saying we are born knowing certain things, to everything we learn comes from experience. Each of these have different arguments to them, however, they each have a different idea of the basic definitions of knowledge and belief. There are also the questions of whether or not beliefs are rational, and is knowledge justifiable. The standard…

case most of it was destroyed. As a result both had very severe amnesia and because of that we can conclude that hippocampus is the part of the brain responsible for forming/retrieving or storing the LTM. This is an example of the link between cognition and physiology of the brain. However, certain exceptions make this theory a lot more complex. For example HM had remembered JFK’s assassination and both could still learn new skills. In Clive’s case, the fact that he could still emotionally…

Groupthink hypothesis is an essential explanatory tool in explaining why certain decisions taken may not always follow the rational model based on aspects of the decision making body itself. ‘According to the groupthink hypothesis, members of any small cohesive group tends to maintain esprit de corps by unconsciously developing a number of shared values and related norms that interfere with critical thinking and reality testing’ (Janis,(1972) 2002). The illusions of invulnerability, unlimited…

Social media has taken full control of the way we go about living our lives. The power that it withholds over us determines who our “friends” are, plans what we are doing for every moment of our day and also has consumed us with false visions of the way we perceive our world. In Malcolm Gladwell’s article, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted”, Gladwell discusses the negative side of pairing activism and social media together. Social media places activists in a negative light by…

Before one can understand the decline in adolescents and the elderly, one must first understand how the brain and cognition is formed and develops throughout infancy, childhood, and early adolescents. When the child is first born, they have low cognition in any form. As the child matures and develops, the brain does also. The cerebellum, frontal lobe, parietal lobe, hippocampus, etc. all begin to develop along with the child. The child…

Adam was the younger child I observed; he was around 12-18 months old. He was a very active child and moved around the room very frequently, seeming like he lost focus really quickly while playing. Adam is developmentally he is right where he should be. With motor skills, he is walking and slightly running smoothly, he also has mastered skills like stacking object and can successfully remove his socks and shoes alone. From what I could see he didn’t communicate much verbally with others in the…

Discussion: It is my belief that BCI research to effect cognition, memory and thought is just an extension of work that aims to effect change in the brain. From psychotherapy to pharmacological intervention, research has focused for a long time on assisting patients in need with altering their mental state, particularly for diagnoses such as depression, bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia and other debilitating diseases. Patients with minimal use of their limbs or with neurodegenerative diseases…

her baby to all the staffs and me. She would say “Where is my baby? Or “Where is my little boy?” to everyone. As a result, some staff would bring out a baby doll and carry it to her and she would say “Thank You for bringing my child”. When she has this doll, she treats it like a real baby. She would play with it, talk to it, rock it, and try to carry it everywhere she goes. When Jane has this baby dolls she become really happy and seem to be enjoying life. For instance, she would talk baby…

I never thought of one’s personal psychology would have such a deep impact on making investment decisions. I believed that people with a high level of knowledge and sufficient experience would always make rational decisions and predict future tendency appropriately. Almost everything changed after taking the Behavioural Finance lecture. For example, traditional finance assumptions tell us that people are risk averse. People’s behaviors should be consistent with their level of risk tolerance.…

presented, it is clear that even though animals and humans live distinctly different lives, their minds work in very similar ways to ours and there is not much difference between the two. The theories that will be discussed are meta-cognition, future-oriented cognition, theory of mind and the ability to ignore irrelevant stimuli as well as…