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New Research From Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring time order as a psychological bias and how people interpret errors in statements made by nonnative speakers.
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No Evidence That Brain-Stimulation Technique Boosts Cognitive Training
Transcranial direct-current stimulation may be growing in popularity, but research suggests that it probably does not add meaningful benefit to cognitive training.
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Thinking Strategically About Study Resources Boosts Students’ Final Grades
College students who reflected about how to best use classroom resources had higher final grades relative to their peers.
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Humans Are Animals, Too: A Whirlwind Tour of Cognitive Biology
Citing the bridge between evolutionary psychology and cognitive science, University of Vienna scientist W. Tecumseh Fitch shows how studying our animal relatives fosters our understanding of human cognition.
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Perception and Play: How Children View the World
The interactions among children’s brains, bodies, and surrounding environments have tremendous effects on how they learn to speak and identify specific items in their field of view. APS Fellow Linda B. Smith shares her groundbreaking methods for examining these processes.
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Cognitive science shows that humans are smarter as a group than they are on their own
Quartz: As individuals, the amount we know about the world is miniscule. One psychologist estimated that an individual’s knowledge store is about one gigabyte, much less than fits on a typical USB thumb drive. This
