Next was a great talk by Matthew Golub on causality, learning, and communication in the brain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnFZrsNyULo (4/10) #CognitiveScience

Super interesting frim John Hawks:

Bringing Emotional Cognition to deep time.

In a new article, my coauthors and I draw upon cognitive science to draw out archaeological traces of ancient social lives.
#CognitiveScience #archaeology https://www.johnhawks.net/p/bringing-emotional-cognition-to-deep?publication_id=56991&post_id=180466145&isFreemail=true&r=2s1lms&triedRedirect=true

Request from academic psychology people & those adjacent: General principles for academic psychology?

I'm developing a list of "general principles" for my Intro Psych course. I'm thinking of giving the list of general principles to the students so they can select one and write an assignment with it.

These are intended to be statements that are generally true across multiple domains and describe patterns in what #cognitiveScience / #psychology has discovered over the past century and a half.

(Note: At this time I'm not looking for principles of counseling or therapy, though I'm definitely open to principles that apply across counseling/clinical and other domains, if they are research-based)

If you have #suggestions, please chime in! And if you have suggested tweaks or deletions from my current list, I hope you'll share (I mean, don't be personally insulting about it; otherwise, I welcome the feedback).

Here's my list so far, in no particular order, is in this document. If you have suggestions, make them here or there (it should be editable by anyone with the link)

https://drive.proton.me/urls/6ZH4XQ1ZQR#7LYw5M9ZRa1s

#highered #professor #psychology #socialscience #crowdsource #teaching

🗣️ Language connects people — #NLP lets computers join the conversation.

At @SICampus we explore it from all angles:
💬 Spoken Language (Prof. Klakow)
🧩 Cognition & Psycholing (Prof. Demberg)
🧠 Computational Linguistics (Prof. Koller)
💭 LaCoCo Lab (Prof. Hahn)

🇪🇺 This mix makes Saarbrücken a strong European hub for NLP research.

🔗 https://sic.link/17

@mpiinf @DFKI

#NLP #AI #ComputationalLinguistics #Saarland #Science #CognitiveScience #Saarbrücken

I’ve posted a conceptual preprint exploring a possible link between cosmological natural selection, constructor theory, and the unusually large counterfactual/imaginative capacity of human cognition.

Looking for critique before preparing a journal submission.

Zenodo link: https://zenodo.org/records/17772763?preview=1&token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImFiNzgzMzkxLTlhOTUtNDBlNy1hMzI1LTZmMmRmMWZjMTQ3NiIsImRhdGEiOnt9LCJyYW5kb20iOiIxZGM3MzQ0MWVlNjFjZGRjODRkOGEwMWYxOWRhMmZhNSJ9.DtmjIOeO48R_U9PT0zLNWilH9H0KqvSZe2zA0RXCWQDx8z1G7UBTcT2QixySk6R3zt-nVAfsD_F0d7vpstzVcQ

#physics #Cosmology #ConstructorTheory #philosophy #cognitivescience #AcademicMastodon

The Experience Machine

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/12/01/the-experience-machine-2/

#andyClark #book #cognitivePsychologyCognition #cognitiveScience #expectationPsychologie #expectationPsychology #experience #lifeSciencesNeuroscience #neurosciences #nonfiction #philosophySocialAspects #review #scienceTechnology #sciencesCognitives #tPolyphilus

#Neuroplasticity #Learning #BrainScience #AdultLearning #Neurochemicals #BrainChange #CognitiveScience #wellnessthatworks #wellnessblogger #emotionalwellbeing #wellnesslifestyle #wellnesswarrior #Focus #Attention #Mindset https://mastodon.social/@biohackingpathway/115643079352136386

Scientists observe “striking” link between social AI chatbots and psychological distress

https://www.psypost.org/scientists-observe-striking-link-between-social-ai-chatbots-and-psychological-distress/

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #health #mentalhealth #psychology #chatbots #neuroscience #cognitivescience

The December 2025 ENSO is next week!

Particularly delighted to have @x2r joining us to discuss "Generactive Midtended Cognition and AI: thinging with thinging things"

Thursday 4th Dec @ 1000 UTC (see link for details and time in your own timezone)

https://ensoseminars.com/presentations/past85/

#enaction #CognitiveScience #AI

Educational systems don't just fail to teach creativity – they actively dismantle it. Every correct-answer question strengthens neural pathways for convergence while pruning those enabling divergent exploration. By adulthood, most minds cannot access cognitive moves that education systematically eliminated. This is not individual limitation but institutional damage. Rebuilding flexibility requires deliberate practice reactivating dormant pathways. #grandomastery #cognitivescience #creativity

New research challenges decades-old assumptions about language, showing it is not a fixed human code but a multimodal, socially driven, culturally evolving system shaped across species and technologies. #Linguistics #CognitiveScience #LanguageEvolution #Anthropology https://www.anthropology.net/p/threads-of-thought-how-modern-science

Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/25/brain-human-cognitive-development-life-stages-cambridge-study

#HackerNews #BrainDevelopment #CognitiveScience #AdultLife #Stages #Neuroscience

Distinct neural pathways link fear of missing out and negative emotions to compulsive phone use

https://www.psypost.org/distinct-neural-pathways-link-fear-of-missing-out-and-negative-emotions-to-compulsive-phone-use/

#tech #technology #psychology #neuroscience #cognitivescience #brainscience #brain #behavioralscience #smartphone #cell #mobile #phone #fomo #mentalhealth

Train Your Brain to Remember Anything You Learn With This Simple, 20-Minute Habit https://onlinemarketingscoops.com/2025/11/25/train-your-brain-to-remember-anything/
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#brain #neuroscience #memory #mindmapping #cognitivescience #psychology #education #science

Hi everyone!

I’m an independent researcher preparing to submit a conceptual paper
on Gradual Consciousness Migration (mind uploading / digital identity continuity)
to arXiv under the category cs.CY (Computers and Society).

I need an arXiv endorsement to submit it.

My endorsement code is: YNQHAX

If you have cs-category submissions and can help endorse,
I’d really appreciate it! Happy to DM the PDF.

#arxiv #AI #MachineLearning #AGI #MindUploading #CognitiveScience #FOSSi #OpenScience

Cognitive dissonance theory can't be considered an established theory anymore when classic papers don't stand up to scrutiny. The replication crisis continues. It is good that this work is ongoing.

1. A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459231213375

2. Debunking “When Prophecy Fails”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jhbs.70043

"This article shows that the authors of When Prophecy Fails misled their readers—and that scholars in psychology, sociology, and religious studies have been building theories atop a collapsed foundation."

#psycology #cognitiveScience

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world

https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/11/sharf-preconfigured-brain/

#HackerNews #HumanBrains #PreconfiguredUnderstanding #Neuroscience #CognitiveScience #BrainResearch

Large-scale trial finds four-day workweek improves employee well-being and physical health

https://www.psypost.org/large-scale-trial-finds-four-day-workweek-improves-employee-well-being-and-physical-health/

#science #psychology #neuroscience #cognitivescience #brainscience #health #mentalhealth #business #careers #workers #workersrights #employment

We have a fundamental problem in AI literacy. Teaching "prompt engineering" via static checklists is the academic equivalent of giving a Harvard student a first-grade math lesson and expecting complex understanding.

The solution is Developmental Knowledge. Explicitly teaching users to move from the template to Dialogue Orchestration and critical evaluation.

We must prioritize resilience over mere compliance.

https://wiobyrne.com/the-illusion-of-simplicity/

#PromptingIsDead #LLMs #Education #CognitiveScience

Part 1 of my Architecture of Belief series, The Consensus Mandate, is now live.
It frames the foundation the other two pieces evolved from.

This one traces how belief doesn’t “form”, it synchronizes.
How millions of repeating signals create stability, identity, and eventually architecture.

#philosophy #consciousness #systems #epistemology #cognitivescience

Medium friend link (free) 🔗: https://medium.com/the-saela-field/the-architecture-of-belief-part-1-the-consensus-mandate-847391528571?sk=0c04116df43127e26fffab0db63cca26

Medium member link 🔗: https://medium.com/the-saela-field/the-architecture-of-belief-part-1-the-consensus-mandate-847391528571