by ASC Staff | May 15, 2020 | Cognitive Science
People who appreciate the beauty of mathematics activate the same part of their brain when they look at aesthetically pleasing formula as others do when appreciating art or music, suggesting that there is a neurobiological basis to beauty. There are many different...
by ASC Staff | May 12, 2020 | Cognitive Science
Quarantine Fatigue Instead of an all-or-nothing approach to risk prevention, Americans need a manual on how to have a life in a pandemic. In the earliest years of the HIV epidemic, confusion and fear reigned. AIDS was still known as the “gay plague.” To the extent...
by ASC Staff | Mar 22, 2020 | Cognitive Science of Free Will
The Cognitive Science of Free Will How to make the best decisions is one of the “Key Questions” the @lantis Learning Community is interested in. This lesson is focused on how the brain constrains our decision making by fooling us about Free Will One of the...
by ASC Staff | Feb 24, 2020 | Cognitive Science
The new discipline of network neuroscience yields a picture of how mental activity arises from carefully orchestrated interactions among different brain areas. Networks pervade our lives. Every day we use intricate networks of roads, railways, maritime routes and...
by ASC Staff | Jul 10, 2019 | Cognitive Science
Herodotus mentioned whistled languages in the fourth book of his work The Histories, but until recently linguists had done little research on the sounds and meanings of this now endangered form of communication. New investigations have discovered the presence of...
by ASC Staff | Jul 10, 2019 | Cognitive Science
Neuro Linguistic Programming Skeptics View I think the more you want to become more and more creative you have to not only elicit other peoples’ (plural) strategies and replicate them yourself, but also modify others’ strategies and have a strategy that...
