Bruce Bridgeman: UC Santa Cruz Department of PsychologyEstimation of slope is an everyday tool for navigating the external world. Previous studies have found that slopes are overestimated more greatly with a verbal than with a proprioceptive measure. Since some neurons in the premotor cortex respond differently to objects within arm’s reach, we hypothesized that slope […]
Greg Hickok: UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences & Center for Cognitive NeuroscienceThere are two ideas regarding how auditory and motor speech systems interact in language processing. A popular view in the neuroscience community is that motor systems play an important role in the perception of speech. This is an old idea that has been largely (if […]
Aaron Sell: UCSB Department of PsychologyAnger can be understood as a cognitive mechanism designed by natural selection to negotiate conflicts of interest in ways similar to, but distinct from, non-human animal conflict. The Recalibrational Theory of anger uses an evolutionary biological framework to predict the major features of anger and explain their computational structure by […]
