Cognitive Science

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Consistency and Variation in Reasoning About Physical Assembly

Abstract The ability to reason about how things were made is a pervasive aspect of how humans make sense of physical objects. Such reasoning is useful for a range of everyday tasks, from assembling a piece of furniture to making a sandwich and knitting a sweater. What enables people to reason in this way even […]

Published on December 25, 2023

The Efficiency of Question‐Asking Strategies in a Real‐World Visual Search Task

Abstract In recent years, a multitude of datasets of human–human conversations has been released for the main purpose of training conversational agents based on data-hungry artificial neural networks. In this paper, we argue that datasets of this sort represent a useful and underexplored source to validate, complement, and enhance cognitive studies on human behavior and […]

Published on December 24, 2023

Urine metabolomics phenotyping and urinary biomarker exploratory in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease

IntroductionAlzheimer’s disease is a prevalent disease with a heavy global burden and is suggested to be a metabolic disease in the brain in recent years. The metabolome is considered to be the most promising phenotype which reflects changes in genetic, transcript, and protein profiles as well as environmental effects. Aiming to obtain a comprehensive understanding […]

Published on December 23, 2023