I feel a bit of dissonance over writing this post. My newly edited book on dissonance, Cognitive Dissonance: Re-examining a Pivotal Theory in Psychology, is an update of the book Jud Mills and I ...

Research Paper UWS 37A - The Biology of Morality Dr. Elissa Jacobs Library Research Excellence Prize, 2023 About this paper | This paper as PDF | APA format “Sometimes I look at my hands and I ...

Valeria Vinogradova, a researcher at HSE University, together with British colleagues, studied how language proficiency affects cognitive processing in deaf adults. The study showed that higher ...

The AI revolution has transformed behavioral and cognitive research through unprecedented data volume, velocity, and variety (e.g., neural imaging, ...

Exploring how to get the answers and information we want from LLMs, in the way that we need.

Dave received his PhD from the University of Indiana. He was a faculty member at U. Maryland, UCSD, and U. Massachusetts, before joining CU Boulder in 2023. He is trained in mathematical modeling, ...

In a new study Indiana University researchers observed episodic memory in rats to a degree never documented before, suggesting that rats can serve as a model for complex cognitive processes often ...

A study exploring the mechanisms behind why cognitive performance improves in response to exercise, has found that dopamine plays a key role. The neurotransmitter and hormone—which is tied to pleasure ...

Why do some players naturally pull in on a joystick to look up, like they’re flying a plane, whereas others press forward? For many years, the issue has been discussed in terms of habit, nostalgia, or ...