As a Pakistani naval officer hinted last week, Pakistan's generals have fallen into the simplest of cognitive traps — mirror-imaging — by assuming that the Indian Army's plans are automatically national policy.
Nevertheless, the debate over what cognitive functions mirror neurons actually underlie is still going strong.
After the cold pressor task, we administered two cognitive stressors, mirror tracing and reaction time tasks (in counterbalanced order).
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether AY rats exhibit cognitive deficits that mirror those observed in AAS clinically.
Deficits in that task, which are common in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), mirror either impaired semantic memory or dysfunctional executive control mechanisms.
It is important to note, however, that student response patterns may not always mirror cognitive processes, and our interpretations are constrained by the methods we used to uncover student thinking and the sample that we studied.
In philosophy of language, the assumption is that sentence structure mirrors cognitive structure, and hence that an inquiry into sentence meaning proceeds via an analysis of the cognitions sentences 'express'express
Thus it requires a form of cognitive processing which mirrors that associated with actual proficiency.
In contrast to this unique self-system notion, several lines of evidence suggest that multiple (at least 4) "ordinary" cognitive processes underpin mirrored self-recognition at both perceptual and semantic levels.
Magpies are also capable of passing a cognitive experiment called the "mirror test," which proves an organism's ability to recognize itself in a reflection.
"Risky play mirrors effective cognitive behavioral therapy of anxiety," they write in the journal Evolutionary Psychology, concluding that this "anti-phobic effect" helps explain the evolution of children's fondness for thrill-seeking.
