Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Cognitivism01:17

Cognitivism

1.4K
Cognitive psychology emerged as a significant field in the mid-20th century. It focused on understanding humans' internal mental processes. This approach emphasizes how people perceive, remember, think, and solve problems—elements critical to human cognition.
Previously dominated by behaviorism, which prioritized observable behaviors and largely ignored mental processes, psychology transformed in the 1950s. Cognitive psychologists argue that understanding how we think and process...
1.4K
Cognitive Learning01:21

Cognitive Learning

307
Cognitive learning is based on purposive behavior, incidental learning, and insight learning.
E. C. Tolman's theory of purposive behavior emphasizes that much behavior is goal-directed. He argued that to understand behavior, we must look at the entire sequence of actions leading to a goal. For instance, high school students study hard, not just due to past reinforcement but also to achieve the goal of getting into a good college.
Tolman introduced the idea that behavior is influenced by...
307
Deductive Reasoning01:16

Deductive Reasoning

55.4K
Deductive reasoning, or deduction, is the type of logic used in hypothesis-based science. In deductive reasoning, the pattern of thinking moves in the opposite direction as compared to inductive reasoning, which means that it uses a general principle or law to predict specific results. From those general principles, a scientist can deduce and predict the specific results that would be valid as long as the general principles are valid.
For example, a researcher can deduce specific predictions...
55.4K
Reason and Intuition01:37

Reason and Intuition

6.5K
The human brain processes information for decision-making using one of two routes: an intuitive system and a rational system (Epstein, 1994; popularized by Kahneman, 2011 as System 1 and System 2, respectively). The intuitive system is quick, impulsive, and operates with minimal effort, relying on emotions or habits to provide cues for what to do next, while the rational system is logical, analytical, deliberate, and methodical. Research in neuropsychology suggests that the...
6.5K
Introduction to Cognitive Psychology01:20

Introduction to Cognitive Psychology

525
Cognitive psychology is the field of psychology dedicated to examining how people think. It attempts to explain how and why we think the way we do by studying the interactions among human thinking, emotion, creativity, language, and problem-solving, as well as other cognitive processes. Cognitive psychology studies how information is processed and manipulated in remembering, thinking, and knowing.
This field emerged in the mid-20th century, following a period dominated by behaviorism, which...
525
Language and Cognition01:27

Language and Cognition

373
Language serves as a bridge between ideas and communication, influencing how individuals perceive and interact with the world. Psychologists have long debated whether language shapes thought or vice versa. This discussion gained grip with Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1940s, who proposed that language determines thought, a concept known as linguistic determinism. They suggested that the vocabulary and structure of a language influence how its speakers think and perceive reality.
373

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Affordances are for life (and not just for maximizing reproductive fitness).

The Behavioral and brain sciences·2026
Same author

Places for reasoning.

Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences·2024
Same author

LLMs differ from human cognition because they are not embodied.

Nature human behaviour·2023
Same author

Trick or treat: A response to commentaries on "The Markov blanket trick".

Physics of life reviews·2023
Same author

The emperor has no blanket!

The Behavioral and brain sciences·2022
Same author

Word frequency effects found in free recall are rather due to Bayesian surprise.

Frontiers in psychology·2022
Same journal

Limits to Language Prediction: Findings From Diverse Populations.

Topics in cognitive science·2026
Same journal

There Is More Than Meets the Eye: The Dual Role of Perception in Shaping Color Lexicons.

Topics in cognitive science·2026
Same journal

Inference and Imagination.

Topics in cognitive science·2026
Same journal

Gesture Use Across Different Concepts: Focusing on Cross-Linguistic Diversity.

Topics in cognitive science·2026
Same journal

Exploring Amazonian Cognitive Diversity at Chana Research Station.

Topics in cognitive science·2026
Same journal

Do (We Think That) Plants Have Agency?

Topics in cognitive science·2026
See all related articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jul 16, 2025

The Spatial Memory Game: Testing the Relationship Between Spatial Language, Object Knowledge, and Spatial Cognition
05:15

The Spatial Memory Game: Testing the Relationship Between Spatial Language, Object Knowledge, and Spatial Cognition

Published on: February 19, 2018

10.9K

Abduction and Deduction in Dynamical Cognitive Science.

Anthony Chemero1

  • 1Departments of Philosophy and Psychology, Institute for Research in Sensing, Strange Tools Research Lab, University of Cincinnati.

Topics in Cognitive Science
|September 20, 2023
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

This study explores dynamical cognitive science, viewing cognitive systems as interaction-dominant, noncomputational, and nonmodular. It examines how this perspective explains complex behaviors like 1/f noise and multifractality.

Keywords:
Complex systemsDynamical systemsPhilosophy of science

More Related Videos

The Adventures of Fundi Intervention Based on the Cognitive and Emotional Processing in Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Patients
05:48

The Adventures of Fundi Intervention Based on the Cognitive and Emotional Processing in Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Patients

Published on: June 12, 2020

5.8K
Quantifying Learning in Young Infants: Tracking Leg Actions During a Discovery-learning Task
11:18

Quantifying Learning in Young Infants: Tracking Leg Actions During a Discovery-learning Task

Published on: June 1, 2015

10.7K

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jul 16, 2025

The Spatial Memory Game: Testing the Relationship Between Spatial Language, Object Knowledge, and Spatial Cognition
05:15

The Spatial Memory Game: Testing the Relationship Between Spatial Language, Object Knowledge, and Spatial Cognition

Published on: February 19, 2018

10.9K
The Adventures of Fundi Intervention Based on the Cognitive and Emotional Processing in Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Patients
05:48

The Adventures of Fundi Intervention Based on the Cognitive and Emotional Processing in Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder Patients

Published on: June 12, 2020

5.8K
Quantifying Learning in Young Infants: Tracking Leg Actions During a Discovery-learning Task
11:18

Quantifying Learning in Young Infants: Tracking Leg Actions During a Discovery-learning Task

Published on: June 1, 2015

10.7K

Area of Science:

  • Dynamical cognitive science
  • Complexity sciences
  • Philosophy of science

Background:

  • Reviews a specific research subset in dynamical cognitive science.
  • Focuses on systems viewed as interaction-dominant, noncomputational, and nonmodular.
  • Situates this research within the framework of C.S. Peirce's scientific reasoning (abduction, deduction, induction).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To trace the historical development of a controversy.
  • To examine the use of interaction dominance as an explanatory framework.
  • To connect cognitive system dynamics to observed behavioral complexity.

Main Methods:

  • Historical review of scientific literature.
  • Analysis of C.S. Peirce's model of scientific reasoning.
  • Examination of a specific scientific controversy.

Main Results:

  • Highlights the progression of scientific reasoning from abduction to induction.
  • Identifies a controversy regarding interaction dominance as an explanation for complex behaviors.
  • Connects theoretical models of cognitive systems to empirical observations of 1/f noise, multifractality, and complexity matching.

Conclusions:

  • Interaction dominance offers a framework for understanding complex cognitive behaviors.
  • The historical development reveals evolving scientific explanations in cognitive science.
  • Peirce's model of reasoning provides a lens for analyzing scientific progress in this field.