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Paul Thagard
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Latest papers
The cognitive science of COVID-19: Acceptance, denial, and belief change.
Methods (San Diego, Calif.) · 2021 · first author
Mental health assessment: Inference, explanation, and coherence.
Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2018 · first author
Eighty phenomena about the self: representation, evaluation, regulation, and change.
Frontiers in psychology · 2015 · first author
Latest funding
- $145,000
Cognitive and neural mechanisms for goal revision and emotional change
NSERC · 2010 · Principal investigator
- $179,045
Cognitive and neural mechanisms for decision and explanation
NSERC · 2005 · Principal investigator
- $185,000
Cognitive mechanisms for coherence and emotion
NSERC · 2000 · Principal investigator
8 publications.
The cognitive science of COVID-19: Acceptance, denial, and belief change.
Thagard P
Mental health assessment: Inference, explanation, and coherence.
Thagard P, Larocque L
Eighty phenomena about the self: representation, evaluation, regulation, and change.
Thagard P, Wood JV
Two theories of consciousness: Semantic pointer competition vs. information integration.
Thagard P, Stewart TC
The affective meanings of automatic social behaviors: three mechanisms that explain priming.
Schröder T, Thagard P
The AHA! experience: creativity through emergent binding in neural networks.
Thagard P, Stewart TC
Emotional consciousness: a neural model of how cognitive appraisal and somatic perception interact to produce qualitative experience.
Thagard P, Aubie B
Mental illness from the perspective of theoretical neuroscience.
Thagard P
Cognitive and neural mechanisms for goal revision and emotional change
Principal investigators: Thagard, Paul
Cognitive and neural mechanisms for decision and explanation
Principal investigators: Thagard, Paul
Cognitive mechanisms for coherence and emotion
Principal investigators: Thagard, Paul
Cognitive mechanisms for analogy and explanation
Principal investigators: Thagard, Paul
Computers
Principal investigators: Thagard, Paul
Cognitive mechanisms for forming and evaluating explanatory hypotheses
Principal investigators: Thagard, Paul
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
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