Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception
Cognition. 2024 Mar 28;247:105762. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105762. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are many putatively distinct phenomena related to perception in the oblique regions of space. For instance, the classic oblique effect describes a deficit in visual acuity for oriented lines in the obliques, and classic "prototype effects" reflect a bias to misplace objects towards the oblique regions of space. Yet these effects are explained in very different terms: The oblique effect itself is often understood as arising from orientation-selective neurons, whereas prototype effects are described as arising from ca...
Source: Cognition - March 29, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Sami R Yousif Samuel D McDougle Source Type: research
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception
Cognition. 2024 Mar 28;247:105762. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105762. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are many putatively distinct phenomena related to perception in the oblique regions of space. For instance, the classic oblique effect describes a deficit in visual acuity for oriented lines in the obliques, and classic "prototype effects" reflect a bias to misplace objects towards the oblique regions of space. Yet these effects are explained in very different terms: The oblique effect itself is often understood as arising from orientation-selective neurons, whereas prototype effects are described as arising from ca...
Source: Cognition - March 29, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Sami R Yousif Samuel D McDougle Source Type: research
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception
Cognition. 2024 Mar 28;247:105762. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105762. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are many putatively distinct phenomena related to perception in the oblique regions of space. For instance, the classic oblique effect describes a deficit in visual acuity for oriented lines in the obliques, and classic "prototype effects" reflect a bias to misplace objects towards the oblique regions of space. Yet these effects are explained in very different terms: The oblique effect itself is often understood as arising from orientation-selective neurons, whereas prototype effects are described as arising from ca...
Source: Cognition - March 29, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Sami R Yousif Samuel D McDougle Source Type: research
Oblique warping: A general distortion of spatial perception
Cognition. 2024 Mar 28;247:105762. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105762. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are many putatively distinct phenomena related to perception in the oblique regions of space. For instance, the classic oblique effect describes a deficit in visual acuity for oriented lines in the obliques, and classic "prototype effects" reflect a bias to misplace objects towards the oblique regions of space. Yet these effects are explained in very different terms: The oblique effect itself is often understood as arising from orientation-selective neurons, whereas prototype effects are described as arising from ca...
Source: Cognition - March 29, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Sami R Yousif Samuel D McDougle Source Type: research
Explaining contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105769. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105769. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCognitive scientists suggest that inviting people to explain contentious political issues might reduce intergroup toxicity because it exposes people to how poorly they understand the issue. However, whether providing explanations can result in more open-minded political thinking remains unclear. On one hand, inviting people to explain a political issue might make them more impartial and open-minded in their thinking. On the other hand, an invitation to explain a contentious political issue might lead to myside bias-ration...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Abdo Elnakouri Alex C Huynh Igor Grossmann Source Type: research
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105770. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105770. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe temporal bisection procedure has been used to assess theories of time perception. A problem with the procedure for measuring the perceived midpoint of two durations is that the spacing of probe durations affects the length of the bisection point. Linear spacing results in longer bisection points closer to the arithmetic mean of the durations than logarithmic spacing. In three experiments, the influence of probe duration distribution was avoided by presenting a single probe duration of either the arithmetic or geometri...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: David J Sanderson Source Type: research
Explaining contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105769. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105769. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCognitive scientists suggest that inviting people to explain contentious political issues might reduce intergroup toxicity because it exposes people to how poorly they understand the issue. However, whether providing explanations can result in more open-minded political thinking remains unclear. On one hand, inviting people to explain a political issue might make them more impartial and open-minded in their thinking. On the other hand, an invitation to explain a contentious political issue might lead to myside bias-ration...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Abdo Elnakouri Alex C Huynh Igor Grossmann Source Type: research
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105770. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105770. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe temporal bisection procedure has been used to assess theories of time perception. A problem with the procedure for measuring the perceived midpoint of two durations is that the spacing of probe durations affects the length of the bisection point. Linear spacing results in longer bisection points closer to the arithmetic mean of the durations than logarithmic spacing. In three experiments, the influence of probe duration distribution was avoided by presenting a single probe duration of either the arithmetic or geometri...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: David J Sanderson Source Type: research
Explaining contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105769. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105769. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCognitive scientists suggest that inviting people to explain contentious political issues might reduce intergroup toxicity because it exposes people to how poorly they understand the issue. However, whether providing explanations can result in more open-minded political thinking remains unclear. On one hand, inviting people to explain a political issue might make them more impartial and open-minded in their thinking. On the other hand, an invitation to explain a contentious political issue might lead to myside bias-ration...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Abdo Elnakouri Alex C Huynh Igor Grossmann Source Type: research
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105770. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105770. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe temporal bisection procedure has been used to assess theories of time perception. A problem with the procedure for measuring the perceived midpoint of two durations is that the spacing of probe durations affects the length of the bisection point. Linear spacing results in longer bisection points closer to the arithmetic mean of the durations than logarithmic spacing. In three experiments, the influence of probe duration distribution was avoided by presenting a single probe duration of either the arithmetic or geometri...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: David J Sanderson Source Type: research
Explaining contentious political issues promotes open-minded thinking
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105769. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105769. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTCognitive scientists suggest that inviting people to explain contentious political issues might reduce intergroup toxicity because it exposes people to how poorly they understand the issue. However, whether providing explanations can result in more open-minded political thinking remains unclear. On one hand, inviting people to explain a political issue might make them more impartial and open-minded in their thinking. On the other hand, an invitation to explain a contentious political issue might lead to myside bias-ration...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Abdo Elnakouri Alex C Huynh Igor Grossmann Source Type: research
A bias-free test of human temporal bisection: Evidence against bisection at the arithmetic mean
Cognition. 2024 Mar 23;247:105770. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105770. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe temporal bisection procedure has been used to assess theories of time perception. A problem with the procedure for measuring the perceived midpoint of two durations is that the spacing of probe durations affects the length of the bisection point. Linear spacing results in longer bisection points closer to the arithmetic mean of the durations than logarithmic spacing. In three experiments, the influence of probe duration distribution was avoided by presenting a single probe duration of either the arithmetic or geometri...
Source: Cognition - March 24, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: David J Sanderson Source Type: research
Irreducibility of sensory experiences: Dual representations lead to dual context biases
Cognition. 2024 Mar 22;247:105761. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105761. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThere are three views of cognitive representation: the amodal, strong-embodiment, and weak-embodiment views of cognition. The present research provides support for the weak-embodiment view by demonstrating that two representational systems, one conceptual and one perceptual, underlie the cognitive processing of sensory experiences. We find that an initial sensory experience can exert two independent influences on judgments about a subsequent sensory experience. Specifically, we show that the conceptual representation of a...
Source: Cognition - March 23, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yanmei Zheng Alan D J Cooke Chris Janiszewski Source Type: research
Relative cue precision and prior knowledge contribute to the preference of proximal and distal landmarks in human orientation
Cognition. 2024 Mar 22;247:105772. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105772. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTA prevailing argument posits that distal landmarks dominate over proximal landmarks as orientation cues. However, no studies have tested this argument or examined the underlying mechanisms. This project aimed to close this gap by examining the roles of relative cue precision and prior knowledge in cue preference. Participants learned object locations with proximal and distal landmarks in an immersive virtual environment. After walking a path without seeing objects or landmarks, participants disoriented themselves by spinn...
Source: Cognition - March 23, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Yafei Qi Weimin Mou Source Type: research
Acquiring a language vs. inducing a grammar
Cognition. 2024 Mar 19;247:105771. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105771. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTStandard computational models of language acquisition treat acquiring a language as a process of inducing a set of string-generating rules from a collection of linguistic data assumed to be generated by these very rules. In this paper I give theoretical and empirical arguments that such a model is radically unlike what a human language learner must do to acquire their native language. Most centrally, I argue that such models presuppose that linguistic data is directly a product of a grammar, ignoring the myriad non-gramma...
Source: Cognition - March 20, 2024 Category: Neurology Authors: Gabe Dupre Source Type: research
