The ability to regulate emotions is an important part of adaptive functioning in society.
Advances in cognitive and affective neuroscience and biological psychiatry have facilitated …

A fundamental human cognitive feat is to interpret linguistic instructions in order to perform
novel tasks without explicit task experience. Yet, the neural computations that might be used …

How does a listener understand a sarcastic'That was a wonderful speech'when the words
point to a positive review? Why do students of introductory logic interpret'Some cabs are …

What is the role of language in human cognition? Within the domain of deductive reasoning,
the issue has been the focus of numerous investigations without the emergence of a …

Over the course of the past decade, contradictory claims have been made regarding the
neural bases of deductive reasoning. Researchers have been puzzled by apparent …

An argument that the meaning of written or auditory linguistic signals is not derived from the
input but results from the brain's internal construction process. When we read a text or listen …

Rules are widely used in everyday life to organize actions and thoughts in accordance with
our internal goals. At the simplest level, single rules can be used to link individual sensory …

Recent advances in cognitive neuroscience have shown how experience-independent
cognitive abilities termed fluid intelligence (G f) can predict academic achievement, longevity …

Despite the importance of programming to modern society, the cognitive and neural bases of
code comprehension are largely unknown. Programming languages might …

Is human thought fully embedded in language, or do some forms of thought operate
independently? To directly address this issue, we focus on inference-making, a central …