The ability to regulate emotions is an important part of adaptive functioning in society.
Advances in cognitive and affective neuroscience and biological psychiatry have facilitated …

How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words
point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …

A fundamental human cognitive feat is to interpret linguistic instructions in order to perform
novel tasks without explicit task experience. Yet, the neural computations that might be used …

Objective Deductive reasoning is a complex and poorly understood concept in the field of
psychology. Many cognitive neuroscience studies have been published on deductive …

Over the course of the past decade, contradictory claims have been made regarding the
neural bases of deductive reasoning. Researchers have been puzzled by apparent …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience have shown how experience-independent
cognitive abilities termed fluid intelligence (Gf) can predict academic achievement, longevity …

Rules are widely used in everyday life to organize actions and thoughts in accordance with
our internal goals. At the simplest level, single rules can be used to link individual sensory …

Is human thought fully embedded in language, or do some forms of thought operate
independently? To directly address this issue, we focus on inference-making, a central …

An argument against the role of visual imagination in reasoning that proposes a spatial
theory of human thought, supported by empirical and computational evidence. Many …