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Leveraging Cognitive Science when Mediating High-Stakes Commercial Cases

But is there cognitive science that informs this critical strategy call? Cognitive science tells us that initial perceptions linger in our minds, affecting later perceptions and decisions, but within limits. The phenomenon of cognitive “anchoring and ... read more

A Cognitive (and Social) View of Ritual

The convergence of cognitive science with anthropology (and evolutionary biology) in the study of ritual and religion is one of the great scientific stories of the 21st century. While this paper by Hobson et al. doesn’t offer any new empirical data ... read more

How Can We Amplify Student Learning? The ANSWER from Cognitive Psychology

2017). It turns out that learning happens similarly in fully-cognitive functioning learners, and it all has to do with brain processes that enable long-term memory. Books about study techniques built around learning science principles have proliferated in ... read more

Knowledge, Certainty, and Destiny: How to Keep Up With Science & Technology

Why does confidence so often scale with ignorance? Steven Sloman, a professor of cognitive science at Brown University, has some compelling answers to these questions. “We're biased to preserve our sense of rightness,” he told me, “and we have to be.” read more

Acting and Cognitive Science

Something a little different: a theatre professor talks about the impact of cognitive science on acting. An ambitious and original interdisciplinary talk applying findings from neuroscience and metaphors to describe imagination, embodiment, perception ... read more

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professors Offer Insights on Cognitive Science

Newswise — Troy, N.Y.— Sergei Nirenburg, professor and head of the Department of Cognitive Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, was the guest editor of the Winter 2017 edition of AI magazine, the official publication of the Association for the ... read more

From Alzheimer’s to smart pills, cognitive science explained

Jason Shepherd does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment. What are the chances of a cure ... read more

Cognitive science gaining ground in U.S. academic religion studies

Psychology, sociology and other social sciences have been applied to the field for over a century. Over the past 20 years, cognitive science has been edging into the field, especially with the explosion of neuroscience research. Some of the hottest ... read more

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It seems there's nothing but bad news out there lately, but here's some good news -- the nonprofit Evolve Foundation has raised $100 million for a new fund called the Conscious Accelerator to combat l read more

Frontiers in Cognitive Science

Frontiers in Cognitive Science is a specialty section of Frontiers in Psychology that publishes theoretical, experimental, methodological and applied papers on the study of the mind. It covers all aspects of cognitive science: ranging from pre-attentive ... read more