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Reconciling scientific and commonsense values to improve reasoning.

Trends in cognitive sciences

Cusimano C, Lombrozo T.
PMID: 34281766
Trends Cogn Sci. 2021 Nov;25(11):937-949. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.06.004. Epub 2021 Jul 16.

Scientific reasoning is characterized by commitments to evidence and objectivity. New research suggests that under some conditions, people are prone to reject these commitments, and instead sanction motivated reasoning and bias. Moreover, people's tendency to devalue scientific reasoning likely...

Explanatory Preferences Shape Learning and Inference.

Trends in cognitive sciences

Lombrozo T.
PMID: 27567318
Trends Cogn Sci. 2016 Oct;20(10):748-759. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.08.001. Epub 2016 Aug 23.

Explanations play an important role in learning and inference. People often learn by seeking explanations, and they assess the viability of hypotheses by considering how well they explain the data. An emerging body of work reveals that both children...

William G. Lennox: a remembrance.

Epilepsia

Lombroso CT.
PMID: 3049063
Epilepsia. 1988;29:S5-14. doi: 10.1111/j.1528-1157.1988.tb05798.x.

William G. Lennox, author of Epilepsy and Related Disorders, had a lasting effect on our understanding of this illness. He postulated that epilepsy was not a unitary condition and that neuronal chemistries differed from one form of the disease...

Awe as a Scientific Emotion.

Cognitive science

Gottlieb S, Keltner D, Lombrozo T.
PMID: 30056628
Cogn Sci. 2018 Jul 28; doi: 10.1111/cogs.12648. Epub 2018 Jul 28.

Awe has traditionally been considered a religious or spiritual emotion, yet scientists often report that awe motivates them to answer questions about the natural world, and to do so in naturalistic terms. Indeed, awe may be closely related to...

Selective effects of explanation on learning during early childhood.

Journal of experimental child psychology

Legare CH, Lombrozo T.
PMID: 24945685
J Exp Child Psychol. 2014 Oct;126:198-212. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.03.001. Epub 2014 Jun 16.

Two studies examined the specificity of effects of explanation on learning by prompting 3- to 6-year-old children to explain a mechanical toy and comparing what they learned about the toy's causal and non-causal properties with children who only observed...

Science demands explanation, religion tolerates mystery.

Cognition

Liquin EG, Metz SE, Lombrozo T.
PMID: 32711182
Cognition. 2020 Nov;204:104398. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104398. Epub 2020 Jul 22.

Some claims (e.g., that the Earth goes around the Sun) seem to call out for explanation: they make us wonder "why?". For other claims (e.g., that God exists), one might accept that the explanation is a mystery. In the...

Refractory Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome-Many Pieces That Define the Puzzle.

Frontiers in neurology

Szejko N, Lombroso A, Bloch MH, Landeros-Weisenberger A, Leckman JF.
PMID: 33391155
Front Neurol. 2020 Dec 18;11:589511. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2020.589511. eCollection 2020.

Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (GTS) is a childhood onset neuropsychiatric disorder characterized by the presence of motor and vocal tics. The clinical spectrum of GTS is heterogeneous and varies from mild cases that do not require any medical...

Motivated to learn: An account of explanatory satisfaction.

Cognitive psychology

Liquin EG, Lombrozo T.
PMID: 34875484
Cogn Psychol. 2021 Dec 04;132:101453. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2021.101453. Epub 2021 Dec 04.

Many explanations have a distinctive, positive phenomenology: receiving or generating these explanations feels satisfying. Accordingly, we might expect this feeling of explanatory satisfaction to reinforce and motivate inquiry. Across five studies, we investigate how explanatory satisfaction plays this role:...

How to Help Young Children Ask Better Questions?.

Frontiers in psychology

Ruggeri A, Walker CM, Lombrozo T, Gopnik A.
PMID: 33584420
Front Psychol. 2021 Jan 12;11:586819. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586819. eCollection 2020.

In this paper, we investigate the informativeness of 4- to 6-year-old (

Implication of a lysosomal antigen in the pathogenesis of lupus erythematosus.

Journal of autoimmunity

Wilhelm M, Bonam SR, Schall N, Bendorius M, Korganow AS, Lumbroso C, Muller S.
PMID: 33932829
J Autoimmun. 2021 Jun;120:102633. doi: 10.1016/j.jaut.2021.102633. Epub 2021 Apr 28.

Naturally-occurring autoantibodies to certain components of autophagy processes have been described in a few autoimmune diseases, but their fine specificity, their relationships with clinical phenotypes, and their potential pathogenic functions remain elusive. Here, we explored IgG autoantibodies reacting with...

The effects of stimulant dose and dosing strategy on treatment outcomes in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis.

Molecular psychiatry

Farhat LC, Flores JM, Behling E, Avila-Quintero VJ, Lombroso A, Cortese S, Polanczyk GV, Bloch MH.
PMID: 35027679
Mol Psychiatry. 2022 Jan 14; doi: 10.1038/s41380-021-01391-9. Epub 2022 Jan 14.

Clinical guidelines currently recommend practitioners titrate stimulant medications, i.e., methylphenidate (MPH) and amphetamines (AMP), to the dose that maximizes symptom control without eliciting intolerable adverse events (AEs) when treating attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in school-aged children/adolescents. However, robust evidence-base regarding...

The role of explanation in discovery and generalization: evidence from category learning.

Cognitive science

Williams JJ, Lombrozo T.
PMID: 21564236
Cogn Sci. 2010 Jul;34(5):776-806. doi: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2010.01113.x.

Research in education and cognitive development suggests that explaining plays a key role in learning and generalization: When learners provide explanations-even to themselves-they learn more effectively and generalize more readily to novel situations. This paper proposes and tests a...

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