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Category Archives: Thinking
Cognitive Neuroscience of Thinking
The study of thinking in psychology is distributed over three largely independent branches: problem solving, reasoning, and judgment and decision-making. These domains are delineated by the type of tasks they study and the underlying formal apparatus they appeal to in their explanatory framework. … Continue reading
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Brain – Learning and Thinking
A patient known for most of five decades only by his initials, H.M., led to one of the most significant turning points in 20th-century brain science: the understanding that complex functions such as learning and memory are tied to distinct biological processes and regions of the brain. Following … Continue reading
Beauty requires thought: Study supports philosophical claim
Does the experience of beauty require a person to think? And can sensuous pleasures, like eating or sex, be beautiful? Such questions have long preoccupied philosophers, with Immanuel Kant making the famous claim that beauty requires thought, unlike sensuous pleasure, … Continue reading
How Homo became Sapiens – on the Evolution of Thinking
Our ability to think is one of our most puzzling characteristics. What would it be like to be unable to think? What would it be like to lack self-awareness? The complexity of this activity is striking. Thinking involves the interaction … Continue reading
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Think Fast! Take Risks! A Link Between Fast Thinking and Risk Taking
New experiments show that the experience of thinking fast makes people more likely to take risks. This discovery suggests that some of the innovations of the modern world—fast-paced movies, social media sites with a constant flow of fresh updates—are pushing … Continue reading
Examining How Scientists Think
Nancy J. Nersessian‘s research is driven by the question “How do scientists think?” Nersessian’s research focuses on how the cognitive and learning practices of scientists and engineers lead to creative and innovative outcomes. She is a Regents’ Professor of Cognitive … Continue reading
Training in ‘concrete thinking’ can be self-help treatment for depression
New research provides the first evidence that depression can be treated by only targeting an individual’s style of thinking through repeated mental exercises in an approach called cognitive bias modification. The study suggests an innovative psychological treatment called ‘concreteness training’ … Continue reading
More Than Child’s Play: Ability to Think Scientifically Declines as Kids Grow Up
Read Young children think like researchers but lose the feel for the scientific method as they age. Since the 1990s studies have shown that children think scientifically—making predictions, carrying out mini experiments, reaching conclusions and revising their initial hypotheses in … Continue reading
