Sentence examples for mental inference from inspiring English sources

Subjects performed only the mental inference task, i.e., to infer whether Agent B or the computer is able to report the color of his own hat given the information available.

If subjects took Agent B's perspective and inhibited their self-perspective during mental inference, responses should be slower in the inconsistent rather than consistent conditions.

Subjects were asked to infer Agent B's reasoning and to judge whether Agent B is able to know the color of his own hat (a mental inference (MI) task).

(1) Perception task (PC), to identify the color of B's hat; (2) Perspective taking task (PT), to identify the color of the hat that B sees; (3) Deductive reasoning task (DR), to make inference of the color of B's hat; (4) Mental inference task (MI), to identify whether B is able to know the color of his own hat.

More recently animal scientists such as John Staddon have demonstrated that virtually all animal learning involves conscious or unconscious mental inferences.

Oztop et al. [22] developed a computational model of mental-state inference that used the circuitry that underlay motor control.

In contrast, ToM tests are designed with the aim of isolating those aspects of social cognition associated with two-way reciprocal interactions that rely crucially on ToM ability and false belief tasks have facilitated the demonstration of a mentalizing impairment in subjects with lesions of the prefrontal cortex, which is independent of non-mental state inference.

For example, functional MRI studies of Theory of Mind (TOM: i.e., the ability to make mental state inferences about others) have consistently reported activation of the medial aspect of the superior frontal gyrus, anterior to the region commonly referred to as the pre-supplementary motor cortex, despite using a wide variety of TOM tasks [ 72- 76].

For those who are suffering from mental fuzziness, the inference that one is permanently cognitively damaged sits there, waiting to be drawn.

It has also been hypothesized that self-awareness and mental state attribution (inferences about the mental experience of others) are part of a similar neurocognitive process [Am. J. Primatol. 2 (1982) 237].

A recent study found empirical support for a similar hypothesis in practicing mental health clinicians' inferences about biological and psychological bases of symptoms of mental disorders (Kim, Ahn, Johnson, & Knobe, 2016).