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 ...
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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…
Cognitive PsychologyApr 3, 2018
Did the Victorians have faster reactions?
Psychologists have been measuring reaction times since before psychology existed, and they are still a staple of cognitive psychology experiments today. Typically psychologists look for a difference in the time it takes…
Cognitive PsychologyFeb 26, 2018
spaced repetition & Darwin’s golden rule
Spaced repetition is a memory hack. We know that spacing out your study is more effective than cramming, but using an app you can tailor your own spaced repetition schedule, allowing you to efficiently create reliable…
Cognitive PsychologySep 3, 2017
A conscious decision for neuroscientists
Humans spend one third of their lives asleep. Even mild sleep deprivation significantly affects our perception, mood, health, and ...
Cognitive PsychologyMar 23, 2015
Conscious vs. Conscience: What's the Difference?
How does the conscious differ from the conscience? Being conscious is the state of being awake and alert. Conscience, on the ...
Cognitive PsychologyJan 27, 2015
Keeping an open mind about consciousness research
It’s not often you find philosophers of consciousness, neuroscientists and their naysayers happily on the same page. As a group ...
Cognitive PsychologyJul 4, 2014
The Rational Model and Online Decision Making
Online decision making is a concept that describes the cognitive process that goes in the mind of customers before they make a ...
Cognitive PsychologyOct 30, 2013
Memory loss and memories found in ageing brains
The thought of losing our memory is a terrifying part of ageing, but there are surprising upsides, says Douwe Draaisma in The ...
Cognitive PsychologyOct 28, 2013
Zombies, Brains, and Memory
Zombies are everywhere, and they’re after your brain. Zombies are on TV, in books, and playing survival games on my college campus.
Cognitive PsychologySep 9, 2013
Brain Exercise Really Works
Most people now have been told that mental activity is good for the brain. I have even posted information that it can build ...
Cognitive PsychologyJun 11, 2012
Conscious perception is a matter of global neural networks
The question which parts of the brain are responsible for the things that reach our awareness is one of the main puzzles in ...
Cognitive PsychologyFeb 1, 2011
Expectations speed up conscious perception
On their way from the eye, visual stimuli are analysed in manifold ways by different processing stages in the brain. It is not ...
Cognitive PsychologyNov 17, 2010
Perceptual changes
We do not consciously perceive everything around us, even if it falls into our field of vision. The overwhelming abundance of ...
Cognitive PsychologyMar 12, 2008
What Attention Means in Psychology
Attention is both limited and selective. Attention in psychology is the selective focus on relevant information in an environment ...
Cognitive PsychologyAug 24, 2003
Ground-breaking research to develop ‘conscious’ robot
Researchers at the Universities of Essex and Bristol will soon be launching a ground-breaking project to develop a ‘conscious ...