Cognition

Nearly $200K awarded to innovative MIT research on the science of learning and learning effectiveness — The MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) has selected four projects to receive grants to research the science of learning and ways to make learning more effective. MITili grants focus on wide ranging topics including policy, neuroscience, and socioeconomic factors, with a focus on all levels of learning from pK-12 to…

Written by Naomi Ken Korem, edited by Harel Cain — Can machines attain human level cognition? Or solve tasks that require a high level understanding of concepts and their inter-relationships? Recent astounding results from OpenAI’s DALL-E 2 and Google’s Imagen are changing the landscape of AI — not just in the computing world, but across art, entertainment and social platforms…

Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman believes that the notion that we perceive reality as it is — except for some distortions — is completely wrong. Mathematical models based on natural selection suggest that our strongest intuitions may be wrong. In this article, we will analyze this theory. Most of us believe…

A focus on the foundational model… Prelude: The following is a somewhat organized summary of my notes, annotations, and drawings while reading McNamara and Magliano’s 2009 book chapter, Toward a Comprehensive Model of Comprehension. This is: Part 2 of 9. Table of Contents: What Do ‘Construction’ and ‘Integration’ Refer To? 1.1. …

Cognition is lazy. Media are ubiquitous. Purposeful counter-attitudinal thinking is the solution. — As media have proliferated and social media have become a ubiquitous part of our lives, it has become easy to seek out information, news, and opinions that reinforce what we already know and think. It’s natural — cognitive psychology practically requires it. Our brains want to take the easy way…

Powerful individuals, defined as those who have influence over others or have control over others’ outcomes, pay attention to their environment in a different way to those who lack power. Attention is selective — if it wasn’t, we wouldn’t be able to cope with the constant stream of information going…