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
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
The screenshot test is a powerful design heuristic that makes content worthy of sharing because of the simplicity and accessibility of a screenshot.| Cognition Today
Attention is task-dependent and not a fixed resource. Focus at work depends on emotions, engagement with the task, and skills to perform that task.| 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