EDITORIAL article Front. Psychol., 03 July 2023Sec. Cognitive Science Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1242809

The overwhelming majority of those who theorize about implicit biases posit that these biases are caused by some sort of association. However, what exactly this claim amounts to is rarely specified. In this paper, I distinguish between understandings of association as a theory of learning, a theory of cognitive structure, a theory of mental processes, and as an implementation base for cognition...

Performance on the Wason selection task varies with content. This has been taken to demonstrate that there are different cognitive modules for dealing with different conceptual domains. This implication is only legitimate if our underlying cognitive architecture is formal. A non-formal system can explain content-sensitive inference without appeal to independent inferential modules.

Ask the doctor services are personalized forums allowing patients to ask questions directly to doctors. Usually, patients must choose the most appropriate category for their question among lots of categories to be redirected to the most relevant physician. However, manual selection is tedious and error prone activity. In this work we propose to assist the patients in this task by recommending a...

Spectrum sensing is the basis of cognitive radio technology. Cooperative spectrum sensing has been shown to increase the reliability of spectrum sensing. To reduce sensing overhead and total energy consumption, it is recommended that the users with good performance should be selected to increase the sensing reliability. However, which of the cognitive users have the best detection performance i...

Philosophers have developed three theories of luck: the probability theory, the modal theory, and the control theory. To help assess these theories, we conducted an empirical investigation of luck attributions. We created eight putative luck scenarios and framed each in either a positive or a negative light. Furthermore, we placed the critical luck event at the beginning, middle, or end of the ...