Cognitive Offloading Does Not Prevent but Rather Promotes Cognitive Development

Cognitive Offloading Does Not Prevent but Rather Promotes Cognitive Development

We investigate the relation between the development of reactive and cognitive capabilities. In particular we investigate whether the development of reactive capabilities prevents or promotes the development of cognitive capabilities in a population of evolving robots that have to solve a time-delay navigation task in a double T-Maze environment. Analysis of the experiments reveals that the evol...

Determinants of cognitive offloading

Offloading Cognition onto Cognitive Technology

"Cognizing" (e.g., thinking, understanding, and knowing) is a mental state. Systems without mental states, such as cognitive technology, can sometimes contribute to human cognition, but that does not make them cognizers. Cognizers can offload some of their cognitive functions onto cognitive technology, thereby extending their performance capacity beyond the limits of their own brain power. Lang...

[Does intellectual activity prevent cognitive impairment? Relationships between cognitive reserve and mild cognitive impairment].

An in-depth review is presented of the role that cognitive reserve plays in the emergence of (mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and its progression to dementia by using different indicators. The studies reviewed provide support to the hypothesis that the reserve influences the manifestation of symptoms of cognitive impairment and at least partially, in its progression to dementia. The role of in...

Serelaxin treatment promotes adaptive hypertrophy but does not prevent heart failure in experimental peripartum cardiomyopathy

Aims Peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) is a systolic left ventricular dysfunction developing in the peripartum phase in previously healthy women. Relaxin-2 is a pregnancy hormone with potential beneficial effects in heart failure patients. We evaluated Relaxin-2 as a potential diagnostic marker and/or a therapeutic agent in PPCM. Methods and results In healthy peripartum women, serum Relaxin-2...