Why should cognitive neuroscientists study the brain's resting state? by David ePapo

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Leveraging brain science for impactful advocacy and policymaking: The synergistic partnership between developmental cognitive neuroscientists and a parent-led grassroots movement to drive dyslexia prevention policy and legislation by Nadine Gaab, Nancy Duggan

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The 5 ESSENTIALS : Using Your Inborn resources to Create a Fulfilling Life / by Deutsch, Bob (Robert D.), author, Aronica, Lou, author

“…"Raise the bar to become the best version of you-and have fun doing it. As a cognitive neuroscientist, anthropologist, and entrepreneur, Bob Deutsch has spent a lifetime studying people. …”

“Action-Metaphor”: The Performatic Sources of Human Meaning-Making by Fabrizio Deriu

“…In the last section, I focus on cognitive neuroscientist Merlin Donald’s theory of three stages in the evolution of the human mind in order to explain the notion of “action-metaphor” as the “performatic” and non-linguistic source of human meaning-making processes.…”
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Where Evolutionary Psychology Meets Cognitive Neuroscience: A Précis to Evolutionary Cognitive Neuroscience by Austen L. Krill, Steven M. Platek, Aaron T. Goetz, Todd K. Shackelford

“…Here, we briefly review the current state of the science of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, the methods available to the evolutionary cognitive neuroscientist, and what we foresee as the future directions of the discipline.…”
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On the philosophical foundations of episodic memory as awareness of past events by Nara M. Figueiredo

“…The notion was set by experimental psychologist and cognitive neuroscientist Endel Tulving in the 1980s and refers to the ability to be aware of subjective past and future events. …”
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The Phenomenology of “Pure” Consciousness as Reported by an Experienced Meditator of the Tibetan Buddhist Karma Kagyu Tradition. Analysis of Interview Content Concerning Different... by Cyril Costines, Tilmann Lhündrup Borghardt, Marc Wittmann

“…A philosopher and a cognitive neuroscientist conversed with Buddhist lama Tilmann Lhündrup Borghardt (TLB) about the unresolved phenomenological concerns and logical questions surrounding “pure” consciousness or minimal phenomenal experience (MPE), a quasi-contentless, non-dual state whose phenomenology of “emptiness” is often described in terms of the phenomenal quality of luminosity that experienced meditators have reported occurs in deep meditative states. …”
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Cognitive Enhancement for the Healthy by Carolyn Chapman

“…In a recent NY Times Room for Debate, cognitive neuroscientist Martha Farah acknowledged that Adderall users feel more focused and energetic and that the benefits of use can outweigh risks in certain contexts, such as military use.7 However, she cautioned against using the pills to increase productivity for everyday tasks, stressing that “frequency of use is a major determinant of addiction risk” and “regular use on the job is an invitation to dependence.”7 One does not need to search hard to find examples of stories with a bad ending: a 2013 NY Times article tells the disturbing story of Richard Fee, a boy who took his own life after becoming addicted to Adderall medication prescribed by his physician.8 The article cites studies that claim that 10% of adolescents and young adults who misuse stimulants become addicted, and that the medications can cause psychotic behavior or suicidal thoughts in 1 of 400 patients.8 Another survey found that full-time college students who were nonmedical users of Adderall were 3 times more likely to have used marijuana and 8 times more likely to have used cocaine in the past year than those who had not used Adderall non-medically.1 Patients do ask their physicians for prescriptions for cognitive enhancement purposes6, 9, and many physicians occasionally grant such requests.9 The PCSBI report quotes Professor P. …”
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Spectral parameterization for studying neurodevelopment: How and why by Brendan Ostlund, Thomas Donoghue, Berenice Anaya, Kelley E. Gunther, Sarah L. Karalunas, Bradley Voytek, Koraly E. Pérez-Edgar

“…In this paper, we discuss why parameterization is an imperative step for developmental cognitive neuroscientists interested in cognition and behavior across the lifespan, as well as how parameterization can be readily accomplished with an automated spectral parameterization (“specparam”) algorithm (Donoghue et al., 2020a). …”
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Overcoming the phenomenological Perpetuum mobile in clinical cognitive neuroscience for the benefit of replicability in research and the societal view on mental disorders by Christian Beste, Christian Beste

“…This article outlines why it is important that cognitive neuroscientists re-shape their role in mental health research and re-define directions of research for the next decades. …”
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A Comparison of Functional Networks Derived From Representational Similarity, Functional Connectivity, and Univariate Analyses by Ineke Pillet, Hans Op de Beeck, Haemy Lee Masson

“…By comparing these structures, cognitive neuroscientists can characterize how brain areas form functional networks. …”
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Using developmental cognitive neuroscience to study behavioral and attentional control. by Astle, D, Scerif, G

“…The current review addresses the extent to which developmentalists and adult cognitive neuroscientists have tapped this common ground. Some very elegant investigations illustrate how seemingly common processes in adulthood present as separable in childhood, on the basis of their distinctive developmental trajectories. …”

Functional role of the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas. by Nachev, P, Kennard, C, Husain, M

“…In recent years, these areas have come under increasing scrutiny from cognitive neuroscientists, motor physiologists and clinicians because they seem to be crucial for linking cognition to action. …”

The multisensory perception of flavour by Spence, C

“…Eating and drinking are among life's most pleasurable activities and among the most multisensory as well. However, cognitive neuroscientists have only recently come to realise that their insights, derived from studies of the multisensory integration of auditory, visual and tactile stimuli, can be extended to help explain flavour perception. …”

Rhythm and Time in Music Epitomize the Temporal Dynamics of Human Communicative Behavior: The Broad Implications of London's Trinity by Peter E. Keller

“…Thus, the distinction between endogenously and exogenously driven mechanisms of perceptual organization, the active nature of perception, and the presence of multiple time scales are topics that also concern experimental psychologists and cognitive neuroscientists. London’s argument that these three issues play a crucial role in the perception of rhythm and timing implies that they should be considered collectively when attempting to understand diverse communicative acts.…”
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Under the mind's hood: what we have learned by watching the brain at work by Van Ede, F, De Ozorio Nobre, K

“…This is the challenge faced by cognitive neuroscientists worldwide aiming to understand the neural bases of our psychological functions. …”

Neuroscience and phenomenology by Vittorio Gallese

“…This effort is particularly significant for cognitive neuroscientists whose main topic is social cognition and the related notion of intersubjectivity. …”
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Promoting Contemplative Culture through Media Arts by Jiayue Wu

“…Realized by a group of multinational media artists, computer engineers, audio engineers, and cognitive neuroscientists, this work preserves, promotes, and further explores contemplative culture with emerging technologies.…”
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Good old-fashioned ethnography of laboratory by Łukasz Afeltowicz

“…As the author shows, cognitive neuroscientists utilizing fMRI declare that they study the embodied mind; yet, in practice, they reduce the body to the brain, and cognition – to purely internal processes. …”
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The Brain Mechanisms Underlying the Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism may be Extraordinarily Difficult to Discover by Kenneth R. Paap, Oliver M. Sawi, Chirag Dalibar, Jack Darrow, Hunter A. Johnson

“…Six reasons are discussed: 1) the phenomenon may not actually exist; 2) the cognitive neuroscientists investigating bilingual advantages may have been studying the wrong component of executive functioning; 3) most experiments use risky small numbers of participants and are underpowered; 4) the neural differences between groups do not align with the behavioral differences; 5) neural differences sometimes suffer from valence ambiguity, that is, disagreements whether “more” implies better or worse functioning and 6) neural differences often suffer from kind ambiguity, that is, disagreements regarding what type of mental events the pattern of activation in a region-of-interest actually reflects.…”
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