Month: May 2024

Prunes and Other Surprising Foods Boost Bone Health

As May ─ and Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month ─ come to an end, knowing your bone health is important. Osteoporosis, which causes bones to become weak and brittle, happens when the creation of new bone doesn’t keep up with the loss of old bone. Approximately 54… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. […]

Published on May 29, 2024

Bridging the Chasm Between Cognitive Representations and Formal Structures of Linguistic Meanings

Abstract This paper aims to show that properties of cognitive/conceptual representations and formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning can be inter-translated, recast, transformed into one another, and so united together, even though cognitive/conceptual representations and formal-logical structures of linguistic meaning are apparently distinct in ontology and divergent in their form or character. While cognitive/conceptual representations are […]

Published on May 29, 2024

The cardiac cycle modulates learning-related interoception

Behavior is guided by the compatibility of expectations based on past experience and the outcome. In a recent study, Fouragnan and colleagues report that absolute prediction error (PE)-related heart-evoked potentials (HEPs) differ according to the cardiac cycle phase at outcome, and that the magnitude of this effect positively correlates with reward learning in healthy adults. […]

Published on May 29, 2024