Cognitive Science

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P300, Gray Matter Volume and Individual Characteristics Correlates in Healthy Elderly

We investigated whether P300-ERP and cognitive test performance differ for age, sex and education in two groups of healthy elderly, and verified whether any correlations exist between P300 amplitude and latency and grey matter volume using whole brain voxel-by-voxel-based mapping, controlling for age, education, sex and Total Intracranial Volume (TIV). We used 32 channel electroencephalograms […]

Published on May 7, 2019

Self-Agency and Self-Ownership in Cognitive Mapping

The concepts of agency of one’s actions and ownership of one’s experience have proved useful in relating body representations to bodily consciousness. Here we apply these concepts to cognitive maps. Agency is defined as ‘the sense that I am the one who is generating the experience represented on a cognitive map’, while ownership is defined […]

Published on May 5, 2019

Depth and the Uncertainty of Statistical Knowledge on Musical Creativity Fluctuate Over a Composer’s Lifetime

Depth and the Uncertainty of Statistical Knowledge on Musical Creativity Fluctuate Over a Composer’s Lifetime Tatsuya Daikoku* Department of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany Brain models music as a hierarchy of dynamical systems that encode probability distributions and complexity (i.e., entropy and uncertainty). Through musical experience over lifetime, […]

Published on April 30, 2019