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Scientists are using MRI scans to reveal the physical makeup of our thoughts and feelings
Who among us hasn’t wished we could read someone else’s mind, know exactly what they’re thinking? Well that’s impossible, of course, since our thoughts are, more than anything else, our own. Private, personal, unreachable. Or
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Psychological Science Meets Sensory Technology
Virtual reality and other sensory technologies promise new ways of teaching, enhancing cognitive function, compensating for sensory-motor loss, and more, according to APS James McKeen Cattell Fellow Roberta L. Klatzky.
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AI Can Outperform Doctors. So Why Don’t Patients Trust It?
Our recent research indicates that patients are reluctant to use health care provided by medical artificial intelligence even when it outperforms human doctors. Why? Because patients believe that their medical needs are unique and cannot
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The Ultimate Learning Machines
Last July, I went to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the blue-sky government research lab that helped to invent the computer and the internet. I was there, strange as it may seem, to
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Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science
“Digital-Media Use and Mental Health: A Teachable Example of Psychological Science Shining Its Light“ by David G. Myers and “She sounds nice!“ by Beth Morling.
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No Bones about It: People Recognize Objects by Visualizing Their “Skeletons”
Do humans learn the same way as computers? Cognitive psychologists have debated this question for decades, but in the past few years the remarkable accomplishments of deep-learning computer systems have fanned the flames, particularly among
