by Susan Keown | Jan 5, 2022 | ScienceWire
In his first book, “A Field Guide to Thinking Errors: Using Neuroscience to Classify, Avoid, and Exploit Our Biases,” André Golard explains that all people are prone to errors in thinking, such as confirmation bias and loss aversion, and offers readers tools to...
by Wayt Gibbs | Nov 26, 2019 | Past Events
In his new book The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch outlines a quantitative theory of consciousness that suggests it is far more widespread than commonly assumed and is not some kind of computation or hack. And writing in Scientific American, Koch discusses the...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2017 | ScienceWire
How many colors do infants see? And, Jane C. Hu asks, what does that tell us about how our native language shapes our thinking about color? Jane has been writing about the latest cognitive research for Scientific American, including a brief report on language skills...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 3, 2015 | ScienceWire
Preschoolers practice transitive inference, Jane Hu @jane_c_hu discovered. In research done at UC Berkeley, now published in Cognitive Development, Jane and colleagues used puppets to observe kids making sophisticated conclusions about preferences by watching others....
