Understanding intelligence in the animal kingdom isn’t as simple as ranking species from most intelligent to least. There’s ...

Relationship offloading is a new trend that obscures how much more we owe each other than simulation could ever carry.

Post 4 in a series on AI and the Evolution of Cognition. In the first three entries of this series—Thinking About Thinking, In the Post-Cognitive World, and The Three Stages of Cognitive Collapse—I’ve ...

Most people don’t realize these everyday habits are working against their own capacity for brilliance. Here’s how they might ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maggie Boden: books included Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man (1977) and her 2006 magnum opus Mind As Machine: A History of ...

For decades, scientists have mapped attention, memory, language, and reasoning to separate brain networks — yet one big mystery remained: why does the mind feel like a single, unified system?

Cognitive diagnostic assessment and modelling represents an evolving frontier in educational measurement by providing detailed profiles of individuals’ mastery of specific skills and knowledge ...

Cognitive Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field that examines language as an integral facet of human cognition. It posits that our understanding and use of language emerges from bodily experiences ...

Higher cognitive ability in adults typically predicts accurate gut instincts, but this mental shortcut takes time to develop.

Asking people to exert more effort on a test of mental ability does not actually improve their score. A recent study published in Intelligence & Cognitive Abilities found that while financial rewards ...