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Gamified Motor Training With Tangible Robots in Older Adults: A Feasibility Study and Comparison With the Young

Background: An increasing lifespan and the resulting change in our expectations of later life stages are dependent on a good health state. This emphasizes the importance of the development of strategies to further strengthen healthy aging. One important aspect of good health in later life stages is sustained skilled motor function.Objective: Here, we tested the […]

Published on April 4, 2020

Unraveling the Mysteries of Motivation

Motivation plays a central role in human behavior and cognition but is not well captured by widely used artificial intelligence (AI) and computational modeling frameworks. This Opinion article addresses two central questions regarding the nature of motivation: what are the nature and dynamics of the internal goals that drive our motivational system and how can […]

Published on April 4, 2020

Linguistic Convergence to Observed Versus Expected Behavior in an Alienā€Language Map Task

Abstract Individuals shift their language to converge with interlocutors. Recent work has suggested that convergence can target not only observed but also expected linguistic behavior, cued by social information. However, it remains uncertain how expectations and observed behavior interact, particularly when they contradict each other. We investigated this using a cooperative map task experiment, in […]

Published on April 3, 2020