Intelligence in a Physical World

Kara D. Federmeier received her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the University of California, San Diego. She is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Program at the University of Illinois and a full-time faculty member at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, where she leads the Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative and heads the Cognition and Brain Lab. She is also a Past President of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. Her research examines meaning comprehension and memory using human electrophysiological techniques, in combination with behavioral, eyetracking, and other functional imaging and psychophysiological methods. She has been funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Institute of Education Sciences, and the James S. McDonnell Foundation.

• 1. The genetic and neuronal basis of animal architectureAndrew Gordus2. Adopting whole-brain computational modelling to investigate neurophysiological featuresNiall W. Duncan and Cindy Kuang3. Dynamical and robotic modelling of brain motivational and decision-making systemsAlejandro Jimenez-Rodriguez and Tony J. Prescott4. Attention and consciousness are one and the samePo-Jang Hsieh5. Hierarchical processing in the brain: Insights from predictive coding and its neural signaturesZenas C. Chao6. Scratching the itch of "not knowing": Non-instrumental information-seeking in humansStefan Bode7. How do emotions move us? Emotional influence can occur by changing perceivers’ feelings, bodies, and inferencesPiotr Winkielman8. Cultural bodybuilding: the embodied influence of culture on perception and actionMahault Albarracin9. Beyond dyadic interaction and shared experience: rethinking social connectionsPin-Hao Andy Chen

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