Verbalizing the unverbalizable: Exploring tacit human cognition

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Verbalizing the Unverbalizable:Exploring Tacit Human Cognition

Brian Spiering

Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience

“The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution

which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”

Albert Einstein

What Is Tacit Human Cognition?

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My Definition of Tacit Human Cognition

My Current Research

Future Directions

Q & A

The fractionation of long-term memory proposed by Squire (1988)

“We can know more than we

can tell.”

Michael Polanyi

Tacit Knowledge

Tacit Knowledge_______________

Tacit Cognition

Tacit cognition is the process of applying tacit knowledge

How do you study tacit cognition?

Appropriate Tools

How do you study tacit cognition?

Appropriate Methods

How do you study tacit cognition?

Music

How do you study tacit cognition?

fMRI

My Current Study

Music cognition in the fMRI scanner

Expectancy violation in cadence perception

Standard Ending

Deceptive Ending

Modulation Ending

Atonal Ending

Standard

Deceptive

Modulation

Atonal

Music > Silence Baseline

All Endings > Music Baseline

Standard Ending > Music Baseline

Anatomical ROIs

Defined a linear parametric analysis

What does this study tell us about tacit cognition?

What is next?

More analysis

Follow-up experiment

Develop a computational model

Interaction Between Tacit & Nontacit Cognition

Categorization

Unstructured

Rule-based

Information-integration

My Current Study

Categorization in the fMRI scanner

Switching between systemsUnstructured

Rule-based

Information

Stimulus

Unstructured

Rule-based

Information-integration

Training

Training

Transfer

Transfer

Transfer

Transfer

Transfer

Behavioral Results

US > Baseline

RB > Baseline

II > Baseline

Switching Results

What is next?

More subjects

More analysis

Summary

Tacit cognition

Music

Categorization

Acknowledgements

Carol Seger

Graduate Students Kurt, Dan, & Erik

Undergraduate Students Ana, Alex, Sarah, & Cattie

Support NIH Grant R01MH079182

“Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness

that created them.” Albert Einstein

Questions?

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