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Experts at Johns Hopkins shed new light on inattentional blindness, the tendency among us to miss noticing something obvious when our minds are caught up in other things| The Hub
Experts at Johns Hopkins shed new light on inattentional blindness, the tendency among us to miss noticing something obvious when our minds are caught up in other things| The Hub
Prosopagnosia, Musical anhedonia and amusia, and Aphantasia are unusual human experiences that involve a deficit in processing some of the most common aspects of everyday experiences.| Cognition Today
by Marek Maj This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”| JHI Blog
In 1879, Wilhelm Wundt established the first laboratory of scientific psychology. During this time, Wundt and his group developed the structuralism approach, which describes perceptions as combinations of elements called sensations which when grouped together form an image or object that people perceive. This approach dominated the period as an explanation to perceptions in psychology until 1920’s, when it set...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
American psychologist William James (1884) and Danish physiologist Carl Lange (1887) independently proposed their theories of emotion at approximately the same time. Their two theories were later combined into what is presently known as the James Lange Theory of Emotion.| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Neurotransmitters are chemical substances released by nerve endings. They transmit nerve impulses from nerve to nerve and from nerve to the effecter organs. Nerve impulse is nothing but a propagated action potential, which is the rapid sequential change in the membrane potential of the cells. Neurotransmitters transmit the nerve impulse from the pre-synaptic neuron to the post-synaptic neuron through the...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
What are neurons? Neurons are nerve cells. They are composed of 3 basic parts: cell body, dendrites and axon. Cell body (Soma) The cell body is the largest part of a neuron. Its main function is to keep the neurone alive by performing tasks such as energy production and protein synthesis. Dendrites Dendrites are the bushy branches of a neuron....| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Over 72% people are exposed to misinformation at least once a month on social media, according to this detailed list of statistics[1]. If you think ... Read more The post Why even the smartest believe misinformation appeared first on Cognition Today.| Cognition Today
Despite the commonly known positives of high intelligence, there are a few negative cliches like super-intelligent people are prone to mental disorders, are impulsive, have anxiety-induced mental ... Read more The post 5 downsides of being too smart and how to cope with them appeared first on Cognition Today.| Cognition Today
These are some blind spots LLMs have that can be removed with psycholinguistic solutions. Here's a theoretical overview of the problems.| Cognition Today
In our last post, we talked about the James-Lange Theory of Emotion. That was just one of the theories of emotion. This week, we’re going to discuss another theory of emotion – the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion. Background of the Cannon-Bard Theory of Emotion In the early 1900’s, Walter Bradford Cannon (1871 – 1945), a physiologist at Harvard University, was...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Our ancient ancestors realized that when it comes to finding food and fighting off enemies, it is beneficial to make a friend or two. That’s why we, humans, sometimes find it useful to become social. Why do we befriend some people but not others? Social psychology suggests 3 factors that influence our decision on picking friends. Proximity Proximity means geographic...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Mood disorders are psychological disorders that cause mood disturbance in people. There are 2 main types of mood disorders: 1) Depressive disorders 2) Bipolar disorder Depressive disorders It’s normal for us to feel sad and depressed but these feelings are usually short-lived. Depressive disorder is characterized by prolonged sadness and hopelessness. On average, an episode of depression lasts about 6...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Our brain is divided into 2 halves, or hemispheres, that are connected to each other by the corpus callosum. These two hemispheres control the motion in and receive sensory inputs from the opposite side of our body. In other words, the left hemisphere controls the right side of our body and also receives sensory inputs from the right side of our body.| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
In Psychology, aggression refers to physical and verbal behaviours that intend to hurt another person. There are different factors that trigger our aggressive behaviours. Biological factors Genetic influences Twin studies who that genes influence aggression in human. If one identical twin admits to being aggressive, the other twin often admits the same. Researchers are working on finding the “violent” gene....| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
The Piaget theory suggests that regardless of culture, the cognitive development of children follows a predetermined order of stages, which are widely known as the Piaget stages of cognitive development.| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
What is morality? The concept of morality revolves around a person’s differentiation of good and bad when it comes to intentions, thoughts, decisions and actions. It may be driven by a specific code of conduct that comes with a certain religion or philosophy, or from a standard that a person sees as universal. What is moral development? Moral development looks...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Based on Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development, American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg (1927-1987) developed his own theory of moral development in children. According to Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development, there are 6 stages of moral development, known as Kohlberg’s stages of moral development.| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
If you use an apple computer—and even if you don’t—you’re likely to have seen the picture above before: a grey apple logo with a circular array of “spokes” below that signifies that the computer is booting up. If I ask you whether there is any circular motion in this image, your initial answer is likely to be: of course! But...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
In order to avoid biased assumptions about someone’s personality, there is a more standardized way on how to evaluate a person and this is through personality assessment.| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
We all know that people and some animals can learn. If you had a terrible meal every time you went out to a particular restaurant, you’d quickly learn to avoid it. But how does that learning take place? What happens in our mind and brain that enables us to perform this remarkably complex task almost without any effort? One very...| The Psychology Notes Headquarters
Our special brand of cognition (thinking and thinking processes) is the direct interaction of our mind, body, environment, and the tools we use.| Cognition Today
We are habituated to get things faster, and we expect things to be fast. Be it cooking, home delivery, downloads, dating, reaching travel destinations, etc. This is the speed economy. Value is proportional to speed.| 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
This is a combined framework of multiple memory theories that explains how we can increase memory strength and what processes get involved.| Cognition Today
Productivity in the brain happens through many different brain networks/circuits. These networks enable different aspects of productivity and cover the wide range of different cognitive and behavioral tasks needed to be productive.| Cognition Today
Neuroscientists have pinpointed a specific region of the brain that plays a pivotal role in the generation of human creativity.| The Debrief
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
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 psychological processes that guide language and how they change our way of talking in this overview of the basic concepts in psycholinguistics.| 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
Take this critical thinking test based on multiple foundations created by experts. I explore the theories and concepts that define critical thinking.| Cognition Today
Robert Fludd, Jacob’s Ladder AUGUSTINE famously distinguished between two powers or levels of human reason, which he called lower reason (ratio inferior) and higher reason (ratio superior). These refer, respectively, to discursive reasoning (ratiocination) and intellection (immediate grasp), and correspond to what in the Platonic/Neoplatonic tradition are called dianoia and nous. Augustine’s views, of course, […]| Christian Platonism
WE CONCLUDE our translation of Section 6 of De septem septenis with the last form of contemplation it considers, inspiration, which is called an “infusion of the mind from above.” This…| Christian Platonism
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
