Two researchers have provide preliminary evidence that listening to Mozart can help us cope with cognitive dissonance—that intense feeling of discomfort that arises when we realize two of our core beliefs are at odds.
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We introduce the term “enclothed cognition” to describe the systematic influence that clothes have on the wearer's psychological processes. Articles about PSYCHOLOGY: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=psychology 
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If the human mind is not the clearly demarcated information-processing device so neatly objectified in the familiar exemplar of the computer, then what is it? And, indeed, where is it? Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin?” Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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Our interpretation of the world around us may have more in common with the impossible staircase illusion than it does the real world. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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Scientists have used a brain imaging tool that effectively tracked and predicted cognitive decline over a two-year period.
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There will always be a wild and unpredictable quality to creativity and invention, says Anthony McCaffrey, a cognitive psychology researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, because an "Aha moment" is rare and reaching it means overcoming formidable mental obstacles. But after studying common roadblocks to problem-solving, he has developed a toolkit for enhancing anyone's skills.
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Music, speech, and hearing are closely related to each other. Some bodily perceptions (e.g., pain) are closely related to action. But one unexpected piece really caught my attention: executive function and language.
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Psychologists are learning that the brain stays agile well into middle age, retaining the ability to learn new skill sets and take on different points of view by building new neural connections. And nothing is more important to maintaining a healthy brain than receiving an education, say psychologists. Up to age 75, mental tests demonstrate that 'people with college degrees performed on complex tasks like less-educated individuals who were 10 years younger.' In other words, learning keeps you young.
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In today's excerpt – thanks to the work of Daniel Kahneman and others, we now increasingly view our cognitive processes as being divided into two systems. System 1 produces the fast, intuitive reactions and instantaneous decisions that govern most of our lives. System 2 is the deliberate type of thinking involved in focus, deliberation, reasoning or analysis – such as calculating a complex math problem, exercising self-control, or performing a demanding physical task.
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Practical Tips for Productive Living... I know you want to be the best you can be. We all do. But sometimes we look for success in the wrong places or we try to achieve it in the wrong ways. Here are 60 inconvenient truths about personal development to help you stay on track.
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Our ability to remember forms the basis of who we are – but just how reliable are our memories?
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We all know what objects are: they are things, stuff we can identify. But what about non-objects? What does that even mean?
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Elite soccer players have superior executive functions relative to non-players, and there is a significant correlation between their cognitive function and number of goals and assists.
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Cognitive training including puzzles, handicrafts and life skills are known to reduce the risk, and help slow down the progress, of dementia amongst the elderly. A new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Medicine showed that cognitive training was able to improve reasoning, memory, language and hand eye co-ordination of healthy, older adults.
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According to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition -- that is, our ability to reflect on our own mental processes and guide and optimize them.
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At least as far back as Lev Vygotsky, psychological scientists and others interested in human cognition have considered the relationship between humans' technology use and cognition.
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Most of us learn "the cogito" at some point during our formal education. Yet far fewer of us study an equally deep and elegant idea from social psychology: Other people's thinking likewise powerfully shapes the I's that we are. Indeed, in many situations, other people's thinking has a bigger impact on our own thoughts, feelings, and actions than do the thoughts we conjure while philosophizing alone. In other words, much of the time, "You think, therefore I am." For better and for worse.
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The headline at the online magazine Miller-McCune.com just about says it all: "Sex on the Brain Proves Costly for Men." In an intriguing set of empirical studies just published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, a team of social scientists led by professor Sanne Nauts shows that the mere prospect of speaking with an unknown woman reduces men's (but not women's) performance on cognitive tasks.
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Alok Jha introduces a lecture by Christof Koch of the California Institute of Technology on how the brain creates the sensation of consciousness...
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Recent studies indicate that our brains may work like JPGS, conserving "bandwidth" and influencing how we see the world.
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A new study links good nutrition with good cognitive performance, presenting exciting new evidence that cognitive decline could be slowed in old age by simply altering one's diet. By looking at biomarkers in the blood of the study's 104 participants, researchers sought an objective measure of health before beginning cognitive tests. "People who had higher levels of B family vitamins, as well as vitamins C, D, and E had higher scores on cognitive tests than people with lower levels," reported researchers.
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Inspiration and interpretation are inevitable. As metaphor is basic to what we do, so emerging results in neuroscience will be taken well beyond the intentions and even meanings of their authors. Much caution and critique will be needed. Yet at the same time, I want to preserve a space for this other mantle, from science to art and humanism. To creation and design and expression.
A revolution based on neuroscience? No. A recognition of our bodies and experiences and senses? Yes. And thus much closer to metaphors that inspire us every day. Like HOME or WARMTH. And maybe even a tree or two.
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