Cognitive Science

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Altered resting-state functional connectivity and dynamic network properties in cognitive impairment: an independent component and dominant-coactivation pattern analyses study

IntroductionCognitive impairment (CI) due to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) encompasses a decline in cognitive abilities and can significantly impact an individual’s quality of life. Early detection and intervention are crucial in managing CI, both in the preclinical and prodromal stages of AD prior to dementia.MethodsIn this preliminary study, we investigated differences in resting-state functional connectivity and […]

Published on March 18, 2024

The Emotional Content of Children’s Writing: A Data‐Driven Approach

Abstract Emotion is closely associated with language, but we know very little about how children express emotion in their own writing. We used a large-scale, cross-sectional, and data-driven approach to investigate emotional expression via writing in children of different ages, and whether it varies for boys and girls. We first used a lexicon-based bag-of-words approach […]

Published on March 18, 2024

Evaluating the Relative Importance of Wordhood Cues Using Statistical Learning

Abstract Identifying wordlike units in language is typically done by applying a battery of criteria, though how to weight these criteria with respect to one another is currently unknown. We address this question by investigating whether certain criteria are also used as cues for learning an artificial language—if they are, then perhaps they can be […]

Published on March 18, 2024