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Is there a name for a person who looks for a name for another person's supposed faults?
Every few days there is a new question here at Cognitive Sciences asking for a scientific term to describe a behavior that the inquirer finds fault with.
Examples include:
Is there a term for a person who moves from one field of expertise to a new…
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Is there a term for a person who moves from one field of expertise to a new field and has an inflated belief in their competence in the new field?
Person A has led a successful career and is very well renowned in field A.
Later in life, person A moves to field B, a field they're curious about but have very little experience in.
Person A struggles to accept their limited understanding of their…
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What is the term for "What has been seen cannot be unseen" in cognitive sciences?
During a discussion with my officemate I told him that I read somewhere that the gas pillar in Carina nebula looks like a cat punching the dog; ever since then, every time my wallpaper slideshow switches to this wallpaper, "cat vs dog" is the first…
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What brain wave states are associated with hypnosis?
What brain wave states are most correlated with deep hypnosis?
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For binary (spike train) signals, take FFT of signal or autocorrelation of signal?
I want to characterize a binary time-series signal x (derived from neuron action potential data) in the frequency domain.
Should I use the FFT of the original signal x, or the power spectrum (FFT of the autocorrelation of x, which is defined as…
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Is it possible to imitate two way communication between a brain and a limb?
Human muscles are controlled by action potentials that travel along the nerves. Below is an image of a train of action potentials that are decoded by the brain into a sensation or interpreted by a muscle group as a command.
I'm interested if it is…
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How can one find out if he/she is brainwashed?
By brainwashed I mean indoctrinated with some political, religious or other type of propaganda.
I assume that you can't be aware of this, because the lack of that awareness is the point of propaganda - to make you believe that something is…
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How fast is the visual system?
I've heard that the visual system is one of our slowest sensory systems.
How fast is the visual system, and how does it compare to other sensory systems (auditory, mechanosensory, pain, etc.)? For example, how long does it typically take for a…
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Does the Minnesota 12 steps model really produce an effective change in the treatment of drugs addictions?
The Minnesota 12 steps model claims to cure drug addiction, but doesn't deeply deal with the personality structure underlying addiction. We know today how addiction is a problem with an enormous range of factors causing it, being personality or/and…
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Can one incubate on a specific idea in one's sleep?
In this question it is described that intentionally not thinking about a problem can allow the subsonscious to find an answer to the problem; this is known as incubation. I have heard and read it a few times that if you want to solve a tough problem…
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Common components of other cognitive architectures and the Semantic Pointer Architecture
In the papers I've read about it, the Semantic Pointer Architecture (SPA) embodied in Spaun is said to be more biologically plausible than many other proposed architectures such as the Neural Blackboard Architecture, ACT-R and ICS. However, I was…
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Criterion for Asperger's Syndrome
I realize that the diagnostic criteria for Asperger's Syndrome (AS) have changed with the latest version of the DSM, but there was a criterion in the DSM-IV for AS that I didn't understand: "marked impairments in the use of multiple nonverbal…
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What is the difference between IQ and Executive Function?
I was reading an article today that stated that people with high IQ's that have trouble with social skills, memory, being punctual (on time), emotional control, and "growing up" are likely to have issues with Executive Function.
My question is, what…
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Why does your recorded or objective voice sound different to what you hear in your own head?
When speaking, I hear my own voice very differently from how others do and from what it really is. The sound differs in tone, pitch, volume, etc. For example, recordings of my singing or speaking in foreign languages sounded a lot worse than what I…
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What is an effective way of working with core beliefs/schemas?
In CBT one of the core concepts is ANTs (automatic negative thoughts) that form the basis of depressive feelings: they are repetitive, conscious, mostly ungrounded negative thoughts about one's existence, talents, capabilities, etc. Most applied CBT…
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