Sentences with phrase «requires cognitive mechanisms»

A sense of humor — especially adult humor — requires cognitive mechanisms that may or may not be present in other species.

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Cognitive dissonance (except when required as a survival mechanism in cases of severe trauma) is a sign of mental illness.

Research also implicates a distributed network within the prefrontal cortex through which attention is deployed to closely monitor performance, incorporating feedback, as individuals then call on more specialized cognitive control mechanisms to modify subsequent behaviour.30 - 32 Anxiety related perturbations in this pattern are evident in both children33 and adults.34 Imaging studies have implicated the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) in this process, as it appears to be hyperactive in anxious individuals during tasks requiring cognitive or «top down» control.35