Cognitive Science

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Differences in Cerebral Structure Associated With Depressive Symptoms in the Elderly With Alzheimer’s Disease

Background: Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is characterized by global deterioration in multiple cognitive domains. In addition to cognitive impairment, depressive symptoms are common issues that trouble AD patients. The neuroanatomical basis of depressive symptoms in AD patients has yet to be elucidated.Method: Twenty AD patients and 22 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited for the present study. […]

Published on May 13, 2020

Time for a Systems Biological Approach to Cognitive Aging?—A Critical Review

The underlying premise of current theories of cognitive decline with age tend to be primarily cognitive or biological explanations, with relatively few theories adequately integrating both aspects. Though literature has also emphasized the importance of several factors that contribute to cognitive aging including: (a) decline in sensory abilities; (b) the effect of motor speed on […]

Published on May 13, 2020

Non-uniqueness Phenomenon of Object Representation in Modeling IT Cortex by Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN)

Recently DCNN (Deep Convolutional Neural Network) has been advocated as a general and promising modeling approach for neural object representation in primate inferotemporal cortex. In this work, we show that some inherent non-uniqueness problem exists in the DCNN-based modeling of image object representations. This non-uniqueness phenomenon reveals to some extent the theoretical limitation of this […]

Published on May 12, 2020