Multi-scale resolution of neural, cognitive and social systems

Orr, Mark; Lebière, Christian; Stocco, Andrea; Pirolli, Peter; Pires, Bianica; Kennedy, William G.

doi:10.1007/s10588-018-09291-0

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“…It is unknown to what degree these models are relevant for real-world behaviors and decisions that are social in nature and relevant for infectious disease dynamics. There exist sporadic calls in the public health literature for the integration of behavior change theory with computational psychology in public health (Orr et al, 2013(Orr et al, , 2019Orr and Plaut, 2014;Pirolli, 2016;) but these suffer from similar issues to those found in the social psychological literature. A more domain-general approach is needed.…”

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A 10-year prospectus for mathematical epidemiology

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There is little significant work at the intersection of mathematical and computational epidemiology and detailed psychological processes, representations, and mechanisms. This is true despite general agreement in the scientific community and the general public that human behavior in its seemingly infinite variation and heterogeneity, susceptibility to bias, context, and habit is an integral if not fundamental component of what drives the dynamics of infectious disease. The COVID-19 pandemic serves as a close and poignant reminder. We offer a 10-year prospectus of kinds that centers around an unprecedented scientific approach: the integration of detailed psychological models into rigorous mathematical and computational epidemiological frameworks in a way that pushes the boundaries of both psychological science and population models of behavior.

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“…Reading largely unconsciously (Burke, 2017: 3; Hayles, 2017: 10) generates a microcognitive ‘neurological tempest’ (Keidel et al, 2013: 919), as readers idiosyncratically generate interpretations through rapid and immensely complex bombardments of ‘unexperienceable’ (Troscianko, 2017: 172) processes that contribute to macroscale remembering, predicting, evaluating, speculating, imagining and learning. In other words, cognition during reading occurs ‘across levels of scale’, with multidirectional impacts (Orr et al, 2019: 5). This view of cognition accords with process philosophy, in which processes at all scales are also conceptualised as interactive, changeable and transient (Dupré and Nicholson, 2018; Hooker, 2011; Seibt, 2020).…”

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“…(Hogan, 2014: 296) Literary studies of empathy (Fernandez-Quintanilla, 2020;Keen, 2007), real readers reading (Canning, 2017;Martinez and Herman, 2020) and experientiality (Caracciolo, 2014;Gavins, 2007) recognise the individually situated knowledge and experience that is involved in reading. As part of a growing push in cognitive studies generally for more naturalistic research into sociocultural factors (Nastase et al, 2020;Orr et al, 2019;Petitmengin and Lachaux, 2013), literary reader response research (Canning, 2017;Fernandez-Quintanilla, 2020;Gavins, 2007;Martinez and Herman, 2020;Peplow and Carter, 2014) reinforces the necessity of working with, rather than suppressing, dynamic real time interactions among text, reader and reader's lived world. Embodied, situated or 'sociocultural cognition' (Tenenberg and Knobelsdorf, 2014: 7) is crucial for reading prose fiction but is not the only set of processes impacting narrative and interpretation.…”

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Literary dynamics inThe.PowerBookby Jeanette Winterson andOryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood

O’Leary

2021

Language and Literature

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Interaction between text and reader is a prominent concern in stylistics. This paper focusses on interactions among stylistic processes and subconscious microcognitive processes that generate changes to narrative and interpretation during reading. Drawing on process philosophy and recent neuroscientific research, I articulate this dynamism through analysis of a brief narrative moment from each of The.PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson and Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. I argue that high densities of stylistic and microcognitive perturbations lead to frequent narrative and interpretive changes in the two moments. The analyses reinforce portrayals of reading as intensely complex, dynamic and changeable. Complexity, dynamism and mutability also characterise the stylistic changes in the two narrative moments. This paper advocates greater attention to the role of volatile stylistic and cognitive microdynamics in shaping the reading of prose fiction.

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“…While the spiral of silence theory frequently refers to the “social nature of man” [ 18 ], no attempt of grounding this assumption in social psychology and neuroscience has been made. On the other hand, the potential for explaining collective behaviour based on mechanisms identified in cognitive and social neuroscience is frequently emphasized [ 19 , 20 , 21 ], but its integration with sociological theories of collective opinion expression [ 6 , 7 , 15 ] is lacking. The social feedback theory (SFT) bridges this gap by formulating collective processes of opinion expression as a multiagent problem in which individual agents adapt according to a reward- and value-based learning scheme identified in neuroscientific research [ 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 ].…”

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Modelling Spirals of Silence and Echo Chambers by Learning from the Feedback of Others

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Gaisbauer

Olbrich

2022

Entropy

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What are the mechanisms by which groups with certain opinions gain public voice and force others holding a different view into silence? Furthermore, how does social media play into this? Drawing on neuroscientific insights into the processing of social feedback, we develop a theoretical model that allows us to address these questions. In repeated interactions, individuals learn whether their opinion meets public approval and refrain from expressing their standpoint if it is socially sanctioned. In a social network sorted around opinions, an agent forms a distorted impression of public opinion enforced by the communicative activity of the different camps. Even strong majorities can be forced into silence if a minority acts as a cohesive whole. On the other hand, the strong social organisation around opinions enabled by digital platforms favours collective regimes in which opposing voices are expressed and compete for primacy in public. This paper highlights the role that the basic mechanisms of social information processing play in massive computer-mediated interactions on opinions.

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Multi-scale resolution of neural, cognitive and social systems

Cited by 8 publications

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A 10-year prospectus for mathematical epidemiology

A 10-year prospectus for mathematical epidemiology

Literary dynamics inThe.PowerBookby Jeanette Winterson andOryx and Crakeby Margaret Atwood

Modelling Spirals of Silence and Echo Chambers by Learning from the Feedback of Others

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