Cognitive Science

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Emerging Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics: promising insights from lipid metabolism and microglia-focused interventions

More than 55 million people suffer from dementia, with this number projected to double every 20 years. In the United States, 1 in 3 aged individuals dies from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or another type of dementia and AD kills more individuals than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. AD is a complex and multifactorial disease involving […]

Published on October 25, 2023

When Native Speakers Are Not “Native‐Like:” Chunking Ability Predicts (Lack of) Sensitivity to Gender Agreement During Online Processing

Abstract Previous work on individual differences has revealed limitations in the ability of existing measures (e.g., working memory) to predict language processing. Recent evidence suggests that an individual’s sensitivity to detect the statistical regularities present in language (i.e., “chunk sensitivity”) may significantly modulate online sentence processing. We investigated whether individual chunk sensitivity predicted the online […]

Published on October 24, 2023

Recurrence Quantification Analysis of Crowd Sound Dynamics

Just like a symphony orchestra where different instruments come together to create harmonious melodies, when people gather in a crowd, they also produce a complex symphony of sounds. A recent study aimed to understand the behavioral dynamics of crowds attending basketball games by analyzing the acoustic signals they generate. By using a method called recurrence […]

Published on October 24, 2023