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Explore a curated collection of recent studies, publications, and groundbreaking discoveries on the topic of embodied cognitive science.
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Lexical olfaction recruits olfactory orbitofrontal cortex in metaphorical and literal contexts
Published in:Â Brain and Language, Volume 179, April 2018, 11-21 Abstract "The investigation of specific lexical categories has substantially contributed to advancing our knowledge on how meaning is neurally represented. One sensory domain that has received particularly little attention is olfaction ...
Global brain dynamics during social exclusion predict subsequent behavioral conformity
Published in:Â Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 2, 182-191 Abstract "Individuals react differently to social experiences; for example, people who are more sensitive to negative social experiences, such as being excluded, may be more likely to adapt their ...
Converging operations and the role of perceptual and decisional influences on the perception of faces: Neural and behavioral evidence
Published in:Â Brain and Cognition, Volume 122, April 2018, 59-75 Abstract "Theoretical analyses suggest that the regularities indicative of holistic processing can be obtained by combinations of perceptual and decisional factors. Kuefner and colleagues used electrophysiological results to suggest that the ...
Reaffirming the Sensory Recruitment Account of Working Memory
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 22, Issue 3, 190-192 Abstract "The sensory recruitment theory of working memory (WM) proposes that the same cortical regions that contribute to online perceptual processing of a stimulus are recruited to maintain that ...
The Myth of Optimality in Clinical Neuroscience
Published in: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Volume 22, Issue 3, 241-257 Abstract "Implicit in modern dimensional theories of psychiatric illness is the assumption that population variability and illness vulnerability are interchangeable constructs. Mounting evidence suggests that healthy variation is ubiquitous ...
