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A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions. Using the right tags makes it easier for others to find and answer your question.

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For questions focusing on the interaction of many internal mental processes. If your question involves only one of memory, attention, language, decision-making, or perception then use the associated …
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For questions about the biology of the nervous system.
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For questions regarding the organization and identification of transducted sensory information in the brain and its interpretation and consolidation in the mind
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For questions where the author needs to know specific articles/surveys/books on a given topic.
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For questions about definitions, names, and terms used in the cognitive sciences literature.
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For questions about the empirical and theoretical study of how perception, feelings, behavior, and cognition are effected by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Questions are addresse…
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For questions about acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences. Learning may involve synthesizing different types of information.
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For questions about techniques for measuring psychological and neural properties. Includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and personality traits, as well as neural structure, orga…
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For questions about the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information in the brain. This tag encompasses research all the way from the molecular level in model organisms to abstract mathematical re…
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For questions about experimental and theoretical methods, procedures, and tools used while conducting research in the cognitive sciences.
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For questions about levels of abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, reasoning, learning, having emotional knowledge, retaining, planning, and problem solving, their roles in …
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For questions about the application of specific experimental methods to study psychology.
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For questions regarding the physiological and environmental stimuli that shape our perceptions and influence our behavior.
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For questions about models and theoretical idealizations of cognitive processes in humans or other animals. Examples include computational, mathematical, and conceptual models.
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For questions regarding the visual system, which serves to transduce light energy into neural impulses, or regarding visual perception, how we interpret such incoming visual information.
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For questions about this branch of psychology which seeks to classify and characterize mental disorders. Aberrant or socially maladaptive thought patterns are the earmarks of many of these disorders,…
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For questions regarding the cognitive processes which result in the selection of a course of action among several alternative scenarios.
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For questions involving psychological changes taking place during the lifespan of an individual, not just during infancy or childhood, and using multiple approaches.
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For questions relating to the application and extension of psychological principles to humans operating within the context of business, industry, and other organizational structures.
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Questions relating to the enactment of tasks within society and how this reflects on our internal characteristics. Tests and other assessments can act as measures of performance.
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For questions relating to mechanisms that modulates behavior, either as an initiator, limiting influence, or sustainer.
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For questions about modeling processes from cognitive and neurobiological theories via algorithms and computer simulations, and also about confirming experimental results with theoretical/statistical …
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For questions pertaining to the physiology and pathophysiology of sleep in humans and animals (e.g., sleep stages and their EEG patterns, sleep disturbances), along with psychological effects of sleep…
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For questions about the psychology and neuroscience of the production and perception of oral and written language.
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For questions about the individual patterns of behavior, emotion, or attitude that humans display.
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For questions that have to do with a sense of being awake and aware in the literal sense, but also those having to do with the nature of the mind and the formation of the individual.
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For questions about statistical methods that might be appropriate for certain paradigms within psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, or cognitive science.
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For questions about mathematical and computational neuroscience.
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For questions about the interaction of biological (or artificial) evolution and the cognitive agents that are influenced by it.
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For questions about this field that studies how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools a…
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For questions about the function and structure of both biological and artificial neural networks (ANNs), and for the applications of ANNs to modeling in cognitive science.
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Questions pertaining to the evaluation of performance through formal or informal means, as well as the scoring of such evaluations.
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For questions about this branch of philosophy that studies the nature of the mind, consciousness and their relationship to neurobiology.
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Questions regarding the quality of life of individuals (or societies) and how it can be effectively measured or quantified.
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Questions about the ways that our bodies processes incoming visual, auditory, gustatory, somatosensory, proprioceptive, and pain (among others) information
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For questions about the mathematical approach to psychology concerned with analytic modeling of motor/perceptual/cognitive processes and quantifying stimulus and response.
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