Essays about: "cognitive neuroscience"
Showing result 36 - 40 of 64 essays containing the words cognitive neuroscience.
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36. The Emotional Brain and Sleep : A review of the relationship between sleep and emotional brain functioning
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : Why do we need to sleep? Not only is getting enough sleep important for our overall health and well-being, it is perhaps of utmost importance for normal brain functioning. Scientific findings derived from studying sleep deprivation suggests that sleep also plays an important role in our emotional functioning, which has led researchers to propose a causal and intimate relationship between sleep and emotional brain functioning. READ MORE
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37. How Seductive is the Reductive Allure? Exploring the suggested bias for scientific explanations containing irrelevant reductive information
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för psykologiAbstract : Earlier studies have shown that when assessing explanations of psychological phenomena, there is a bias for explanations including references to neuroscience, even when these references contain logically irrelevant information (Fernandez-Duque, Evans, Christian & Hodges, 2015; M inahan & Siedlecki, 2016; Weisberg, Keil, Goodstein, Rawson and Gray, 2008; Weisberg, Taylor & Hopkins, 2015). Recently, it was suggested that this bias applies to reductive explanations within many sciences, i. READ MORE
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38. Statistical and machine learning methods for classification of episodic memory
University essay from Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistikAbstract : Multiple modern methods of statistical feature extraction and machine learning are applied to classification of encoding and retrieval of episodic memories us- ing electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings. Raw data, different time-frequency methods, and multiclass common spatial patterns are used for statistical feature ex- traction. READ MORE
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39. Heart rate variability : A possible measure of subjective wellbeing?
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : Wellbeing and subjective wellbeing (SWB) has become some the most important goals of our time, both individually and societally. Thus, there is a need for reliable ways to measure SWB, as concerns regarding many current measures have been raised. READ MORE
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40. Empathy for pain and its modulating factors
University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för biovetenskapAbstract : The present thesis deals with the concept of empathy for pain, its neurobiological underpinnings and modulations of the phenomenon. Empathy for pain is understood as the empathic response that occurs when recognising another in pain and entails at least the affective processes of actually felt pain in oneself. READ MORE
