Abstract Whereas a growing bulk of work has demonstrated that both adults and children are sensitive to frequently occurring word sequences, little is known about the potential role of meaning in the processing of such multiword chunks. Here, we take a first step toward assessing the contribution of meaningfulness in the processing of multiword sequences, […]

Humans are adept at learning and exploiting statistical regularities to predict future events from current experience. A recent paper by Sherman and Turk-Browne demonstrates that statistical regularities bias the hippocampus toward representing future states over current experience and reduce the degree to which current experience is encoded into memory. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. […]

In a recent article, Cleeremans et al. [1] presented the self-organizing metarepresentational account (SOMA) of consciousness. According to SOMA, consciousness emerges as result of the development of a second-order system that subtends phenomenal experiences. Central to SOMA is a self–other loop that lets the individual develop a model of agenthood by observing and interacting with […]