Tom Vanderbilt from The Guardian has presented a nice podcast as part of The Guardian’s Long Reads, on the building of Experience as a beginner and learning using chess, sport …
Our human bias starts from the moment we are born
New research published by John Hopkins University shows that we actually start developing our human biases from much younger than was previously known, and that the choices we make (even …
Don Norman receives Benjamin Franklin Medal for UCD
The 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer & Cognitive Science is awarded to Donald Norman for the development of the field of user-centered design, which utilizes our understanding of how …
Laughter causes same high as cocaine
A recent Nature article reports that laughter can have the same affects as being high on cocaine.
Irene Pepperberg on cognitive and communitive abilities of birds
There is also a great article by Irene Pepperberg on the cognitive and communicative abilities of animals. The article makes reference to a MIT project called, Rover@Home which was a …
MIT’s OpenCourseWare lectures notes in Cognitive Science
MIT OpenCourseWare lectures/courses on Brain and Cognitive Sciences