Month: May 2021

Homocysteine and Folic Acid: Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease—An Updated Meta-Analysis

Background: Recent studies have reported that homocysteine (Hcy) may play a vital role in the pathogenesis of vascular dementia (VaD) and Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Our study explored the relationship between the plasma Hcy and folate levels and the risk of dementia.Methods: We searched Embase, PubMed, and Web of Science for published literature, including case-control studies […]

Published on May 26, 2021

The Influences of Category Learning on Perceptual Reconstructions

Abstract We explore different ways in which the human visual system can adapt for perceiving and categorizing the environment. There are various accounts of supervised (categorical) and unsupervised perceptual learning, and different perspectives on the functional relationship between perception and categorization. We suggest that common experimental designs are insufficient to differentiate between hypothesized perceptual learning […]

Published on May 26, 2021

Concepts of God and Germs: Social Mechanisms and Cognitive Heuristics

Abstract Previous research has shown that the more individuals view observable entities as animate, the more those entities are associated with having psychological and physiological experiences. This study examined the relationship between children’s animistic and anthropomorphic reasoning for concepts of unobservable scientific (i.e., germ) and religious (i.e., God) entities. This study further explored how children’s […]

Published on May 26, 2021