Essays on Cognition

This journal critique serves to analyse Stacy A. Gruber and Kelly A. Sagar’s article. The title of the article reads, “Marijuana on the Mind? The Impact of Marijuana on Cognition, Brain Structure, Brain Function, and Related Public Policy Implications”. The article is found in the journal; Chemical Influences on Brain Health, volume 4, issued in 2017 on pages 104-111. The authors discusses the effects recreational marijuana has on cognition, brain function, brain structure and discourse future ...

The movie 'The Wild Child' also depicts the social nature of human cognition, referring to the encounters we have with other people in our everyday lives. Our experiences help us improve and flourish, so we can gain knowledge and form our personalities through being social. When we're not social, we're isolated from the environment, so we may not fit into the crowd. Once he was found, Victor wasn't really friendly since he did not understand what it meant to be social because he had been born ...

As people age they seem to change in an assortment of ways — both regular and psychological. Some of these changes improves, and others tend to decline. Various evidence supports the fact that adjustments in mental limit and stability are directly linked to changes in the cognitive limit. The unusualness of both the neural and cognitive limits, in any case, makes cautious mapping among psychology and direct sensationally problematic. In this way, these relations remain theoretical, but ...

The way the brain adapts to pain is something that has been long discussed in the field of cognitive neuroscience. Although there have been some dissenting views on how migraine pain specifically impacts the ability to complete cognitive tasks while experiencing pain, this paper will discuss one of those such experiments and some potential continuations that could be taken in the future to further this field. Using the research of Mathur et al., 2015, we can begin to look at how different ...