Cognitive PsychologyJan 3, 2024
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Cognitive PsychologyDec 14, 2023
Rare sleep disorder more prevalent than previously thought
People who are very sleepy during the day, despite a good night's rest, may have a sleep disorder called idiopathic hypersomnia. New research has found this neurologic disorder may not be as rare as once thought.
Cognitive PsychologyDec 1, 2023
Why reading nursery rhymes and singing to babies may help them to learn language
Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information reliably until seven months…
Cognitive PsychologyNov 29, 2023
A study unveils the link between musical preferences and our inner moral compass
A new study provides compelling evidence that music preferences can serve as a window into an individual's moral values. It has uncovered an important link between music and morality, paving the way for a deeper…
Cognitive PsychologyNov 20, 2023
Why emotions stirred by music create such powerful memories
Psychologists used music to manipulate emotions of volunteers and found the dynamics of their emotions molded otherwise neutral experiences into memorable events. The tug of war between integrating memories and…
Cognitive PsychologyOct 11, 2023
Fruit fly serenade: Neuroscientists decode their tiny mating song
An extremely supportive atmosphere for new ideas laid the foundation for an 'Aha moment' about a toggle-switch in the fruit fly brain. Do humans have one, too?
Cognitive PsychologySep 8, 2023
Where is the love? Musical recognition crosses cultures — with an exception
Music can take on many forms in cultures across the globe, but researchers have found in a new study that some themes are universally recognizable by people everywhere with one notable exception -- love songs.
Cognitive PsychologyAug 13, 2023
The anatomy of memory
The human memory system is seated in the medial temporal lobe (MTL). Broadly, it contains the hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex ...
Cognitive PsychologyAug 10, 2023
Novel information on the neural origins of speech and singing
Unlike previously thought, it turns out that speech production and singing are supported by the same circuitry in the brain. Observations in a new study can help develop increasingly effective rehabilitation methods for…
Cognitive PsychologyJul 14, 2023
Baby opera: Study finds babies get a kick out of live music
Study findings suggest that even babies feel the impact of being at a live show, through both musicians' interactions with an audience and the social experience of being in a crowd.
Cognitive PsychologyJul 10, 2023
The sound of silence? Researchers demonstrate people hear it
Silence might not be deafening but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort people's perception…
Cognitive PsychologyJun 22, 2022
Psychological time shapes our memories
The first author of the study, Jacob Bellmund, explains, “When estimating the approximate time of a call, we’re guided by ...
Cognitive PsychologyJun 17, 2022
KAIST Establishes Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Graduate School of Data Science
KAIST announced on the 17th that it has established the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Graduate School of ...
Cognitive PsychologyJun 2, 2022
How Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence Are Intertwined
Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science are very much interrelated. AI was first coined in a proposal for a workshop that ...
Cognitive PsychologyMay 14, 2022
What are the options for students of Cognitive Science?
Each of us carries around the most powerful machine on earth in our heads. Our brain is capable of building monuments that ...
Cognitive PsychologyMay 1, 2022
Chromostereopsis
The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this. Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For me though, there is an incredibly strong depth illusion – the blue and…
Cognitive PsychologyMar 21, 2022
Prefrontal cortex involved in conscious vision
Why and how can conscious perception emerge from the brain – from a mere collection of interconnected neurons? This question ...
Cognitive PsychologyFeb 28, 2022
Potential Biases in Police Decision-Making
I am a psychologist who has worked with police in the areas of applied research and consultancy for more than two decades now ...
Cognitive PsychologyDec 5, 2021
Cognitive and brain science: A primer
Most liberal arts colleges have psychology, computer science and philosophy majors. Few, however, have cognitive and brain ...
Cognitive PsychologyOct 13, 2021
The Mechanization of the Mind: On the Origins of Cognitive Science
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Cognitive PsychologyJun 28, 2021
Your Frame of Reference Influences Your Decision Making
Is the latest iPhone a good value? Should you accept that promotion you’ve been offered? Should you pay to have someone come ...
Cognitive PsychologyApr 28, 2021
New Research Identifies "4 P's" of Decision-Making
Personality tests tend to follow a simple formula: rate yourself on a series of statements such as “I feed off of the energy of ...
Cognitive PsychologyJan 29, 2021
Pandemonium’s friendly demons
Oliver Selfridge was an early pioneer of artificial intelligence, and in 1959 wrote a classic paper outlining a system by which simple units, each carrying out a specialised function, could be connected together to…
Cognitive PsychologyMar 20, 2020
Do we suffer ‘behavioural fatigue’ for pandemic prevention measures?
The Guardian recently published an article saying “People won’t get ‘tired’ of social distancing – and it’s unscientific to suggest otherwise”. “Behavioural fatigue” the piece said, “has no basis in science”…
Cognitive PsychologyAug 26, 2019
How Our Brain Brings Memories Back and Forth Through Time
Most people are interested in memory, especially if they are reminiscing about the past or if they know someone suffering from ...
Cognitive PsychologySep 13, 2018
The Choice Engine
A project I’ve been working on a for a long time has just launched: The Choice Engine is an interactive essay about the psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of free will. To begin, follow and reply START…
Cognitive PsychologyAug 15, 2018
After the methods crisis, the theory crisis
This thread started by Ekaterina Damer has prompted many recommendations from psychologists on twitter. Can anyone recommend an (ideally brief) introductory paper or post or book explaining what makes for a good theory…
Cognitive PsychologyAug 14, 2018
Open Science Essentials: Preprints
Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 4 Before a research article is published in a journal you can make it freely available for anyone to read. You could do this on your own website, but you can also do it on a…
Cognitive PsychologyJun 17, 2018
Believing everyone else is wrong is a danger sign
I have a guest post for the Research Digest, snappily titled ‘People who think their opinions are superior to others are most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring chances to learn more‘. The…
Cognitive PsychologyApr 4, 2018
Review: John Bargh’s “Before You Know It”
I have a review of John Bargh’s new book “Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do” in this month’s Psychologist magazine. You can read the review in print (or online here) but the magazine could only…