Octopus Research Yields Insight Into the Evolution of Sleep
A study by researchers in Brazil shows that this animal experiences two major alternating sleep states eerily similar to those in humans — and it even might dream.
Reuters
Topics: Animal Studies Cognition
Study Questions the Limits of Consciousness
The research offers a novel paradigm to study lucid dreams as they occur. It shows a real-time, two-way dialogue between dreamer and researcher is possible.
Inverse
Topics: Cognition Consciousness Creativity
What Chimpanzees Can Teach Us About Human Friendships
Changes in social relationships over the apes’ lifetimes provide clues about both animal and human cognition.
Scientific American
Topics: Aging Animal Studies Cognition Human Uniqueness Social Behavior Social Networks Social Relationships
To Combat False News, Correct After Reading
Study shows people are influenced more by fact-checks after they read news headlines, not before.
MIT News
Topics: Belief Cognition Information
“We Spend So Much Time ‘Living in Our Own Minds’”
Why do our minds wander? Brain study shows benefits of daydreaming.
Topics: Cognition Creativity
The Enduring Allure of Conspiracies
Conspiracy theories seem to meet psychological needs and can be almost impossible to eradicate. One remedy: Keep them from taking root in the first place.
Knowable Magazine
Topics: Belief Cognition Information Knowledge Power
Why You Should Talk to Yourself in the Third Person
Evidence suggests that there are real benefits of talking to yourself in the third person — in your head, not out loud.
VICE
Topics: Cognition Emotion Language Self-Control
The Science of Nerdiness
It’s a neurotransmitter thing.
Topics: Cognition
Why You Don’t Really Know What You Know
One of the world’s biggest science experiments shows why everybody needs to re-examine what it means to know something.
MIT Technology Review
Topics: Cognition Cooperation Information Knowledge Trust
How We Make Moral Decisions
In some situations, asking “what if everyone did that?” is a common strategy for judging whether an action is right or wrong.
Topics: Cognition Cognitive Development Morality
We Learn Faster When We Aren’t Told What Choices to Make
The way we decide may even give insight into delusional thinking.
Topics: Agency Belief Bias Cognition Decision-Making Learning
Crows Possess Higher Intelligence Long Thought a Primarily Human Attribute
Crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds, a manifestation of higher intelligence and analytical thought long believed the sole province of humans and a few other higher mammals.
STAT
Topics: Animal Studies Cognition Consciousness Human Uniqueness Intelligence Neurons
Unconscious Learning Fosters Belief in God, Study Finds
People who unconsciously predict complex patterns are more likely to hold a strong belief in God — a God who creates order in an otherwise chaotic universe.
UPI
Topics: Belief Cognition
Friendliness and Cooperation Are Secrets of Humans’ Success
An interview with Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods about their riveting new book.
Animal Emotions, Psychology Today
Topics: Animal Studies Cognition Cooperation
The Role of Cognitive Dissonance in the Pandemic
The minute we make any decision — I think COVID-19 is serious; no, I’m sure it is a hoax — we begin to justify the wisdom of our choice and find reasons to dismiss the alternative.
The Atlantic
Topics: Belief Cognition Decision-Making
How Do Children Become Members of the Populations They Are Born Into
Cristine Legare describes the development and diversity of cumulative cultural learning.
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
Topics: Cognition Cristine Legare Education Knowledge Learning Social Learning
On Consciousness: Science and Subjectivity
A Q&A with Bernard Baars.
Beautiful Minds, Scientific American
Topics: Cognition Consciousness
Stress Thwarts Our Ability to Plan Ahead by Disrupting How We Use Memory
Pairing brain scans with virtual-navigation tasks, researchers found that people make less efficient and effective plans when stressed.
Stanford News
Topics: Aging Cognition Decision-Making
Talent, You’re Born With. Creativity, You Can Grow Yourself
Some are born great. And some can achieve greatness by nurturing their creative brain with flexible and persistent thinking.
Aeon
Topics: Cognition Creativity Learning Meditation
Mythical Beings May Be Earliest Imaginative Cave Art by Humans
The paintings on an Indonesian island are at least 43,900 years old and depict humanoid figures with animal-like features in a hunting scene.
The New York Times
Topics: Belief Cognition Cognitive Development Human Evolution Language Spirituality
Will Machines Ever Become Conscious?
AI may equal human intelligence without matching the true nature of our experiences.
Topics: Cognition Consciousness Technology
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