This article is a short explanation of how and when students of a new skill get mental space to think and how their basic understanding begins with rote learning. Despite the bad name rote learning gets - memorizing by heart, without a focus on understanding - I'm making the case that rote learning is the first, necessary step before understanding.| Cognition Today
I outline a broad framework of how the brain ideas and generates creative outputs. This process is made up of decomposing knowledge, cognitive influences, and recomposing a new idea.| Cognition Today
Here's a top-level explanation of how the brain can multi-task because of its attention system, working memory, cognitive flexibility.| Cognition Today
These are the psychological reasons we fall for misinformation. I explain the illusory truth effect, psychological comfort, sense-making, Gell-Mann amnesia, hypocognition, confirmation bias, etc.| Cognition Today
Here's how social media affects mental health. These are insights from 40 studies.| Cognition Today
I describe Howard Gardner's 8 intelligence types for professional adults. I've mapped the intelligence to skills.| Cognition Today
Here's a technical overview of how repetition strengthens memory formation, how recall works, what happens biologically, and how information is forgotten. These theories impact education & learning in fundamental ways.| Cognition Today
Explore 2 effects of repeating information - the illusory truth effect & the mere exposure effect. I describe how it works, which can help you utilize it, and notice it in everyday life.| Cognition Today
