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Every day in class, students are encouraged to ‘visualise’, ‘imagine’ or ‘picture’ concepts in their minds. Some find this impossible.
There’s a difference between using a tool to assist you, and using one to replace cognitive effort.
Do you actually know how a bicycle or a zipper work, or what a penny or a common brand logo look like? Intellectual humility can help reduce overconfidence in what you don’t understand.
Your brain doesn’t run out of space – it runs out of attention. The science of why two people can live the same moment and remember it very differently.
A new book for scholars, students, and curious readers invites readers to think critically about the promises and perils of language tech and examines AI’s impact on poetic practice.
Even obviously fake propaganda videos can influence viewers – and erode their trust in all kinds of information.
Turns out humans are not alone in mastering rhythm.
We often think of conversation as effortless. In fact, it’s a finely tuned dance of listening and speaking.
The faster and easier option isn’t always the best.
The same principles that help athletes on the court, field or track can help you regulate stress and adapt to changes in everyday life.
Why do researchers care if a bee can learn to recognise a human face? When we push animals outside familiar territory, we can learn a lot about intelligence.
René Descartes said the only thing we can be certain about is that we think. But what is the nature of thoughts? Philosophers have pondered this for centuries.
Elite athletes are highly specialised decision-makers because they practise it every day, which is why, on many cognitive tasks, they’re smarter than ‘the average Joe.’
Principles from cognitive science can help help in the design of more effective teaching materials for maths.
Could Chomsky have foreseen where his contributions would lead us?
When we invest money, time or another resource we can’t get back, factoring that sunk cost into our future decisions can be a trap.
Language model AIs are smooth talkers, but you shouldn’t rely on them to make important decisions. That’s because they have trouble telling the difference between a gain and a loss.
Why do we have such different and changing tastes? Why do we love what others hate, and vice versa? How is it possible to stop liking something we used to love, or vice versa?
Some scientists believe the ‘free energy principle’ can explain the behaviour of all living things – but others say it paints the world with too broad a brush to be useful.
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PhD Candidate, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University
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Deputy Director, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
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Professor of Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Assistant professor, Texas A&M University-Commerce
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Associate Professor in Psychological Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor, Neuropsychology, University of Westminster
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External Research Professor at Santa Fe Institute, USA & Professor, Head of the Center for Fundamental Living Technology (FLinT), Head of Science Board, Initiative for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP), University of Southern Denmark
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Associate Professor of Medical Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Professor of Behavioural Science, Kingston University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, Weizmann Institute of Science
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Professor of Information Technology, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Macquarie University
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, UNSW
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Professor of Psychology, Director of the Centre for the Politics of Feelings, Royal Holloway, University of London