How the mind works

By Sandy Lovie. 1980

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Incremental Few-Shot Object Detection (2020, neutral): “In contrast, humans learn new concepts such as object classes incrementally without forgetting previously learned knowledge [14], and often requiring only a few visual examples per class [36, 3].”
From everyday emotions to aesthetic emotions: towards a unified theory of musical emotions. (2013, background): “Yet, emotions in music appear to involve a paradox: On the one hand, we have ‘music’, an abstract form of art that seems distant from our concerns in everyday life and is commonly regarded as a harmless form of leisure activity (Pinker, 1997).”
The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead (2000, background): “Thoughtful contributors from the law, especially contract law, include Karl Llewellyn, Stewart Macaulay, Lon Fuller, and Ian Macneil.”
Intuitive vs analytical thinking: four perspectives (2009, background): “…cognitive and behavioral abilities—such as walking on two feet, face recognition, and the use of language—that are spontaneously acquired and effortlessly used by all people under normal development (Cosmides & Tooby, 1992, 1997; Pinker, 1997, 2002; Ridley, 2003; Tooby & Cosmides, 2005).”
Emotion and motivation (2013, unknown): “Examples like these indicate that emotions may have benefits to the possessor, but also to other people; however, there are potential evolutionary mechanisms for both (see e.g. Trivers, 1985; Ridley, 1993; Pinker, 1997).”
Nurture, Nature, and Caring: We Are Not Prisoners of Our Genes (2002, background): “The standard argument of some sociobiologists is that essential parts of our makeup vary little if at all across cultures, since they arose as evolutionary adaptations (see, e.g., Pinker, 1997).”
The evolutionary psychology of the emotions and their relationship to internal regulatory variables. (2008, unknown): “landscape preferences, coalitional aggression, incest avoidance, disgust, predator avoidance, kinship, and family relations (for reviews, see Barkow, Cosmides, & Tooby, 1992; Buss, 2005; Crawford & Krebs, 1998; Daly & Wilson, 1988; Pinker, 1997).”
Silenced by fear:: The nature, sources, and consequences of fear at work (2009, background): “While today’s modern environment is not as physically dangerous as that of early humans, offending those with higher status may continue to evoke fear because of the potential for social harm (Ermer et al., 2008; Pinker, 1997).”
Storytelling as an Instructional Method: Definitions and Research Questions. (2009, background): “In fact, some work is already seeking to merge pattern recognition and information processing models as co-mechanisms of thought (Armstrong et al., 1983; Marcus, 1999; Pinker, 1997).”
Which Emotions Are Basic (2007, background): “Immodest theories are ones that try to accommodate many emotions (see, e.g., Ekman, 1999; Frank, 1988; Pinker, 1997).”
Beyond Collective Entities: Multilevel Research on Organizational Routines and Capabilities (2011, background): “At the level of individual learning, studies linking cognitive abilities and brain physiology have established the presence of anatomically and neurologically distinct memory processes that support the skilled behavior underlying individual competencies (Benson, 1994; Pinker, 1997; Squire, 1987).”
The Odd Couple: The Compatibility of Social Construction and Evolutionary Psychology (2000, methodology): “First, social constructionism is sometimes identified (usually pejoratively) with a set of radical metaphysical theses that call into question the mind independence of reality or the possibility of knowing it (e.g. Pinker, 1997, 57).”
RETHINKING THE EMOTIONAL BRAIN (2012, unknown): “That certain emotions are wired into the brain is also a major tenet of evolutionary psychology (e.g., Tooby and Cos- 654 Neuron 73, February 23, 2012 ª2012 Elsevier Inc. mides, 1990; Pinker, 1997; Nesse, 1990).”
A Rational Analysis of Rule-Based Concept Learning (2008, methodology): “…frequencies (binned according to model prediction) computed for each run separately; error bars represents standard error of the mean over runs; bars below each data point indicate number of runs contributing to that bin (scale on right). more generally (Sloman, 1996; Pinker, 1997; Pothos, 2005).”
The Study of Bias in Entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Many experiments in cognitive science show that if the decisions are represented “in a format that meshes with the way people naturally think about probability, they can be remarkably accurate” (Pinker, 1997, p. 351).”
Modularity in cognition: framing the debate. (2006, background): “In short, we agree with Pinker (1997), who argued that modules should be defined by the specific operations they perform on the information they receive, rather than by a list of necessary and sufficient features (see also Sperber, 2005, p. 54).”