A new study suggests that a simple visual trick—connecting pairs of dots—can make people see fewer objects than are actually present. Children as young as five show this illusion, and its strength increases into adulthood.| PsyPost – Psychology News
Scientists studying people aboard parabolic flights found that weightlessness can scramble your sense of where your arms are — but only in some cases. The findings suggest the brain uses multiple systems to monitor body position, not just one.| PsyPost – Psychology News
Explore human intelligence how learner's brain builds, stores and executes knowledge through neural mechanisms that mirror computer programming.| taxshilateachers.blogspot.com
I’ve noticed that psychedelic medicine has been on the rise in California and other parts of the U.S. over the last few years, and have heard reports from a handful of friends and acquaintances about the incredible results they’ve had from ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin. In our new home of Valle de Bravo, Mexico, I’ve... The post Mushroom Trip: My First Experience with Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy appeared first on Forte Labs.| Forte Labs
A new study reveals a psychological bias that leads people to reject faster, more efficient routes when they involve retracing steps. Known as "doubling-back aversion," the effect emerged in both physical navigation and mental tasks across four experiments.| PsyPost - Psychology News
When I was younger, I used to struggle with maths. I simply could not get a concept quickly enough, while nearly everyone around me seemed to pick things up straightaway. I would get homework that …| Memory, meaning and motivation
📘 Research Introduction: Genius Brain and Visual Learnography| Taxshila Page
Researchers have discovered that apical and basal dendrites of the same neuron use different strategies to learn, suggesting neurons adapt more flexibly than previously thought. The findings help explain how the brain fine-tunes its wiring during learning.| PsyPost - Psychology News
Can we divide cognitive science into soft and hard varieties? I’m not sure, but I’ll give it a go. Hard cognitive science represents aspects of learning related to areas such as memory, including processes such as encoding and consolidation and models such as Cognitive Load Theory, working memory, and so on. Soft cognitive science would […]| The Emotional Learner
I used to utterly dislike teaching the menstrual cycle. Difficult hormone names, lots of facts to remember, confusing graphs (I mean if you don’t know what you are looking at, how confusing i…| Memory, meaning and motivation
Homework has the power to elevate learning. This is the first line of my book, The Homework Conundum, and I stand by it. When done right, homework is a way for students to take ownership of their l…| Memory, meaning and motivation
Here's a top-level explanation of how the brain can multi-task because of its attention system, working memory, cognitive flexibility.| Cognition Today
A few years ago, I developed a mantra of sorts to help me be a better teacher. With everything I do, I ask myself this question: ‘have I given my students every resource and tool needed in order to be successful?‘. I believe this has improved my teaching: I have even thought hard about how... Continue Reading →| Dr C's Science Classroom
Dr C starts the class off with a Do Now task. The questions she poses are mostly the same as the ones on the department powerpoint- someone must have chosen them for a reason, so she leaves them in…| Dr C's Science Classroom
New research reveals up to 25% of unresponsive patients possess "hidden consciousness," challenging long held views in healthcare.| The Debrief
Why is it so easy to humanize chatbots? Did millions of years of human evolution set us up to see a "mind in the machine"?| Practical Ethics
Jonathan Haidt's integrity and transparency are admirable, but the studies he's relying on aren't strong enough to support his conclusions.| Reason.com
Bayesianism is one of the more popular frameworks in cognitive science. Alongside other similar probalistic models of cognition, it is highly encouraged in the cognitive sciences (Chater, Tenenbaum, & Yuille, 2006). To summarize Bayesianism far too succinctly: it views the human mind as full of beliefs that we view as true with some subjective probability. […]| Theory, Evolution, and Games Group
Failure hurts. When you work hard at something, focus on it for a while and then fail to accomplish what you set out to achieve, it can be so disheartening and embarrasing. Mistakes are like failur…| Dr C's Science Classroom
Why don’t you sleep on it… and the answer will be there in the morning. It’s one of those annoyingly wholesome bits of advice my Wife frequently gives me. And I accept. Maybe not …| What's the PONT
The Science-Music Borderlands, edited by Elizabeth H. Margulis, Psyche Loui and Deirdre Loughridge, offers a fresh perspective and broadened sense of music studies. The book splits into four parts…| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
