Trends in cognitive sciences
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Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed.) · Feb 2015
The publication and reproducibility challenges of shared data.
The amount of shared data available for re-analysis has greatly increased in the last few years. Here we discuss some of the challenges raised by the analysis of these shared datasets and propose some strategies to address these issues.
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Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed.) · Feb 2015
ReviewAnesthesia and neuroimaging: investigating the neural correlates of unconsciousness.
In the past 15 years, rapid technological development in the field of neuroimaging has led to a resurgence of interest in the study of consciousness. However, the neural bases of consciousness and the boundaries of unconscious processing remain poorly understood. ⋯ In this review we summarize findings from functional neuroimaging studies that have used anesthetic drugs to study cognition at different levels of conscious awareness. We relate the results to those of psychophysical studies of cognition and explore their potential usefulness in interpreting clinical findings from studies of non-responsive patients.
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Trends Cogn. Sci. (Regul. Ed.) · Feb 2015
ReviewPredictions and the brain: how musical sounds become rewarding.
Music has always played a central role in human culture. The question of how musical sounds can have such profound emotional and rewarding effects has been a topic of interest throughout generations. ⋯ We summarize how complex cognitive abilities and cortical processes integrate with fundamental subcortical reward and motivation systems in the brain to give rise to musical pleasure. This work builds on previous theoretical models that emphasize the role of prediction in music appreciation by integrating these ideas with recent neuroscientific evidence.