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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

Decreased Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Is Associated With Cognitive Deficit in Elderly Patients

Decreased Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow Is Associated With Cognitive Deficit in Elderly Patients Jadwiga Attier-Zmudka1,2, Jean-Marie Sérot1, Jeremy Valluy3, Anne-Sophie Macaret4, Momar Diouf5, Salif Dao6, Youcef Douadi4, Krzysztof Piotr Malinowski7 and Olivier Balédent2,8 1Department of Gerontology, Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Quentin, Saint-Quentin, France 2CHIMERE, EA 7516 Head and Neck Research Group, University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, […]

Published on April 30, 2019