The effect of social media on mental health is complex and it depends a lot on the type of social media activity, real-life conditions, and type of interactions. Here is a summary of research on the psychological effects (positive & negative) of social media use on depression, anxiety, well-being, and social cognition.| Cognition Today
This post is an introduction to cognition, cognitive processes, cognitive functions, cognitive abilities, cognitive resources, and executive functions.| Cognition Today
Metaphors and analogies are everyday quirks of the human condition that reveal a lot about science, spirituality, life, and our existence.| Cognition Today
Psychology and neuroscience research shows that having a fun, stress-free, engaging, enjoyable, pleasurable, multi-sensory, good-mood inducing learning session improves the quality of learning. Here is why & how.| Cognition Today
If you've ever thought about why you made certain decisions in the past, you've engaged in metacognition. Metacognition, commonly called "thinking about thinking," is a central component of our conscious awareness. Along with its close relatives, "metamemory" and "meta-skills," it affects the subjective human experience.| Cognition Today
This article is an introduction to neurogenesis, synaptogenesis, and neural plasticity. The brain changes and refines its neural structure when it learns.| Cognition Today
Gamification is an attempt to make a website or app more fun and motivate users to use it. This is done by employing elements from successful popular games and classical principles of human behavior. The underlying goal is to offer the app's features in a way users benefit as much as possible.| Cognition Today
The basics of consumer psychology - consumer attention, consumer habits, user engagement, etc. Explore 7 cornerstone insights for a marketing edge.| Cognition Today
Have you wondered why people mix 2 languages while speaking? It is called code switching. Here is a psycholinguistic explanation of code switching.| Cognition Today
A concept is formed in the mind when we learn examples and a definition, and acquire its mental representation by comparing and contrasting it with other concepts. But it's a lot more complicated than this. A car is a concept. So is a monkey. Even brands and love are concepts (but not really). There are many incomplete theories of concept formation and different ways to evaluate a concept. Here's a deep look at them.| Cognition Today
Habits are automatic repetitive behaviors that are easily initiated. Here are 10 strategies to build and sustain good habits and 6 ways to break bad ones.| Cognition Today
The kiki-bouba is a fun experiment that shows how our senses talk with each other and create unique experiences.| Cognition Today
I define a concept called "emotion activation" and how 2 frameworks can help to identify these activations during work. The analysis should help employees & employers.| Cognition Today
I've explored how LLMs like ChatGPT perform on psycholinguistic tasks. This analysis is about how well AI develops it's own psycholinguistics and how it compares to human language.| 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
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
This is an initial exploration of cognitive & behavioral biases in Artificial Intelligence in the form of large language models. I've specified some AI biases and shown how human biases are very different.| 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
Brain and cognitive reserve protect the brain from damage and allow alternate ways to compensate for damage. I discuss the key research insights, what the reserve means, and what we can do about it.| Cognition Today
