The embodied perspective The emerging view of embodied cognition holds that the body shapes the mind, and that cognitive processes are deeply rooted in the body’s interactions with the world. Thus sensorimotor and cognitive processes cannot be conceived of as separate. This perspective deeply contrasts with the view of traditional cognitive science according to which the mind is an information ...

The visual system is able to extract an enormous amount of socially relevant information from the face, including social categories, personality traits, and emotion. While facial features may be directly tied to certain perceptions, emerging research suggests that top-down social cognitive factors (e.g., stereotypes, social-conceptual knowledge, prejudice) considerably influence and shape the p...

Sexual victimization is a prevalent problem among college-aged women. In order to investigate the mechanisms underlying sexual victimization, researchers have focused on the role of cognitive processes such as perception of sexual victimization risk, positing that difficulties with risk perception heighten women's risk for victimization. However, researchers generally have not conceptualized ri...

If beliefs and desires affect perception-at least in certain specified ways-then cognitive penetration occurs. Whether it occurs is a matter of controversy. Recently, some proponents of the predictive coding account of perception have claimed that the account entails that cognitive penetrations occurs. I argue that the relationship between the predictive coding account and cognitive penetration...

Ageing is associated with declines in both perception and cognition. We review evidence for an interaction between perceptual and cognitive decline in old age. Impoverished perceptual input can increase the cognitive difficulty of tasks, while changes to cognitive strategies can compensate, to some extent, for impaired perception. While there is strong evidence from cross-sectional studies for ...

It is argued that during ongoing visual perception, the brain is generating top-down predictions to facilitate, guide and constrain the processing of incoming sensory input. Here we demonstrate that these predictions are drawn from a diverse range of cognitive processes, in order to generate the richest and most informative prediction signals. This is consistent with a central role for cognitiv...

Each of the phenomena is perceived by human in certain specific ways from perception to cognition. The next step is the convert of cognitive information into language codes so that these information can be released to the object of communication, the receiver or the listener. Then, the listener receives codes and decodes them in order to understand the information from which he can perform a re...

PURPOSE The aim of the study was to explore the relationship between the caregivers’ perception of patients’ cognitive deficits (i.e., neurocognition and social cognition) and their quality of life (QoL), after adjusting on clinicians’ assessment of neurocognitive deficits and sociodemographic confounding factors. METHODS The study included 253 patients with schizophrenia an...

In this paper, we propose a flexible modeling framework for studying the role of perception in language learning and language evolution. This is achieved by augmenting some novel and some existing evolutionary signaling game models with existing techniques in machine learning and cognitive science. The result is a “grounded” signaling game in which agents must extract relevant information from ...