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Trans-inclusive gender categories are cognitively natural
On the basis of decades of cognitive science research into the nature of lexical concepts, we argue that gender categories that reflect the reality of the experiences of transgender people are more useful and ...
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Open AccessEvaluating the effectiveness of different perceptual training methods in a difficult visual discrimination task with ultrasound images
Recent work has shown that perceptual training can be used to improve the performance of novices in real-world visual classification tasks with medical images, but it is unclear which perceptual training metho...
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Risking Everything in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: An Analogue Decision-Making Study
An experiment examined decision-making processes among nonclinical participants with low or high levels of OCD symptomatology (N = 303). To better simulate the decision environments that are most likely to be ...
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The future of human behaviour research
Human behaviour is complex and multifaceted, and is studied by a broad range of disciplines across the social and natural sciences. To mark our 5th anniversary, we asked leading scientists in some of the key d...
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Not every credible interval is credible: Evaluating robustness in the presence of contamination in Bayesian data analysis
As Bayesian methods become more popular among behavioral scientists, they will inevitably be applied in situations that violate the assumptions underpinning typical models used to guide statistical inference. ...
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On simplicity and emergence
Mark Johnson’s paper centres around a provocative and sensible point: the simplicity of a change in evolutionary terms does not necessarily map straightforwardly onto the simplicity of that change within aform...
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The helpfulness of category labels in semi-supervised learning depends on category structure
The study of semi-supervised category learning has generally focused on how additional unlabeled information with given labeled information might benefit category learning. The literature is also somewhat cont...
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Learning time-varying categories
Many kinds of objects and events in our world have a strongly time-dependent quality. However, most theories about concepts and categories either are insensitive to variation over time or treat it as a nuisanc...
