Hacker News with Generative AI: Cognitive Science

Therapeutic video game shows promise for post-Covid cognitive recovery (psypost.org)
A therapeutic intervention using the AKL-T01 video game was found to improve cognitive processing speed and task-switching performance in individuals with persistent cognitive deficits following COVID-19 infection.

Gaming, Health, Cognitive Science, COVID-19

5 points by isaacfrond 2 days ago | 0 comments

Spaced repetition systems have gotten better (domenic.me)
Mastering any subject is built on a foundation of knowledge: knowledge of facts, of heuristics, or of problem-solving tactics.

Learning, Spaced Repetition, Memory, Cognitive Science

1010 points by domenicd 5 days ago | 503 comments

Orienting Toward Wizard Power (lesswrong.com)

Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy, Cognitive Science, Consciousness

6 points by jstanley 14 days ago | 2 comments

Cognitive Benefits of Open-Skill Sports in Childhood: Evidence from ABCD Study (nlm.nih.gov)
This study analyzed baseline data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, comprising 11,869 children aged 9-10 years. Participants were categorized into open-skill sports group (OSG), closed-skill sports group (CSG), and non-sport group (NSG). Cognitive performance was assessed using seven tasks from the NIH Toolbox, covering executive function, processing speed, and language domains. Group differences were examined using ANCOVA, controlling for sex, race, parental education, income, Area Deprivation Index (ADI), body mass index (BMI), and total time spent in activities.

Cognitive Science, Child Development, Sports, Research, Neuroscience

8 points by pseudolus 19 days ago | 1 comments

Vibe Coding, Vibe Checking, and Vibe Blogging (oreilly.com)
For the past decade and a half, I’ve been exploring the intersection of technology, education, and design as a professor of cognitive science and design at UC San Diego.

Education, Design, Technology, Cognitive Science

5 points by BerislavLopac 30 days ago | 0 comments

End-of-History Illusion (wikipedia.org)
The end-of-history illusion is a psychological illusion in which individuals of all ages believe that they have experienced significant personal growth and changes in tastes up to the present moment, but will not substantially grow or mature in the future.[1] Despite recognizing that their perceptions have evolved, individuals predict that their perceptions will remain roughly the same in the future.

Psychology, Cognitive Science, Illusion, Human Development

8 points by jhncls 33 days ago | 0 comments

Mind Wandering Increases Periodic EEG, Improves Implicit Probabilistic Patterns [pdf] (biorxiv.org)

Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Brain Activity, Electroencephalography (EEG)

7 points by gnabgib 39 days ago | 0 comments

Reminiscence Bump (wikipedia.org)
The reminiscence bump is the tendency for adults over forty to have increased or enhanced recollection for events that occurred during their adolescence and early adulthood.

Memory, Psychology, Aging, Cognitive Science

5 points by amichail 41 days ago | 0 comments

Delusional themes may be more varied than we thought (bps.org.uk)
A recent study takes a global look at common themes of delusions, finding far more than previously assumed.

Psychology, Mental Health, Research, Cognitive Science

50 points by domofutu 43 days ago | 70 comments

Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests (phys.org)
Preschoolers can reason better than we think, study suggests

Child Development, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Education, Research

167 points by PaulHoule 59 days ago | 180 comments

The Hypercuriosity Theory of ADHD (epsig.substack.com)

ADHD, Psychology, Neuroscience, Attention, Cognitive Science

16 points by paulpauper 68 days ago | 0 comments

How to learn a new language like a baby (theconversation.com)
Learning a new language later in life can be a frustrating, almost paradoxical experience. On paper, our more mature and experienced adult brains should make learning easier, yet it is illiterate toddlers who acquire languages with apparent ease, not adults.

Language Learning, Cognitive Science, Education, Psychology

87 points by rwmj 69 days ago | 43 comments

What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023) (seeinglogic.com)
Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time…

Code Readability, Software Development, Human Factors, Cognitive Science

414 points by homarp 73 days ago | 370 comments

Number-Colour-Phoneme Associations: From IBM CGA Colours to Mnemonic Systems (susam.net)
This is a vanity page that records some of the associations between various numbers, colours, and phonemes as they appear in my mind. I must mention here that I do not have synaesthesia. Many of these connections were shaped by childhood experiences. Notably, two unrelated influences, learning about computers and studying mnemonic systems, have played a significant role in forming these associations.

Memory, Cognitive Science, Psychology, Computing, Mnemonics

29 points by susam 83 days ago | 8 comments

Algorithms are breaking how we think [video] (youtube.com)

Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Video

82 points by dkek 90 days ago | 11 comments

'Event Scripts' Structure Our Personal Memories (quantamagazine.org)
By screening films in a brain scanner, neuroscientists discovered a rich library of neural scripts — from a trip through an airport to a marriage proposal — that form scaffolds for memories of our experiences.

Neuroscience, Memory, Psychology, Cognitive Science

7 points by Brajeshwar 90 days ago | 0 comments

Try thinking and learning without working memory (2008) (sharpbrains.com)

Cognitive Science, Memory, Learning

179 points by yamrzou 94 days ago | 86 comments

Talking out loud to yourself is a technology for thinking (2020) (psyche.co)
Talking out loud to oneself is a technology for thinking that allows us to clarify and sharpen our approach to a problem

Cognitive Science, Psychology, Thinking, Problem Solving

26 points by yamrzou 95 days ago | 0 comments

Facing the Music or Burying Our Heads in the Sand? (nlm.nih.gov)
Defenses that keep threatening information out of awareness are posited to reduce anxiety at the cost of longer-term dysfunction. By contrast, socioemotional selectivity theory suggests that preference for positively-valenced information is a late-life manifestation of adaptive emotion regulation.

Psychology, Cognitive Science, Aging, Emotion Regulation

12 points by bobongo 96 days ago | 3 comments

Head Games – a humiliating list of all the ways your brain can deceive you (futilitycloset.com)
This is beautifully well done — a humiliating list of all the ways your brain can deceive you (click to enlarge).

Psychology, Cognitive Science, Human Brain, Neuroscience, Deceptions

9 points by beardyw 99 days ago | 0 comments

Spaced repetition can allow for infinite recall (2022) (efavdb.com)
My friend Andrew is an advocate of the “spaced repetition” technique for memorization of a great many facts [1]. The ideas behind this are two-fold:

Memory, Learning, Spaced Repetition, Cognitive Science

204 points by yamrzou 110 days ago | 203 comments

Cognitive Reasoning Agents and the Extended Information Filter (jdsemrau.substack.com)
Probabilistic reasoning plays a pivotal role in advancing intelligent systems by enabling cognitive agents to operate effectively in dynamic and uncertain contexts.

Artificial Intelligence, Probabilistic Reasoning, Cognitive Science

14 points by Brajeshwar 117 days ago | 4 comments

The number of exceptional people: Fewer than 85 per 1M across key traits (sciencedirect.com)
Cognitive biases can lead to overestimating the expected prevalence of exceptional multi-talented candidates, leading to potential dissatisfaction in recruitment contexts.

Cognitive Science, Talent, Recruitment, Human Resources

12 points by paulpauper 121 days ago | 8 comments

Concept cells help your brain abstract information and build memories (quantamagazine.org)
Individual cells in the brain light up for specific ideas. These concept neurons, once known as “Jennifer Aniston cells,” help us think, imagine and remember episodes from our lives.

Neuroscience, Memory, Cognitive Science, Brain, Artificial Intelligence

147 points by headalgorithm 122 days ago | 18 comments

How the Brain Distinguishes Memories from Perceptions (quantamagazine.org)
The neural representations of a perceived image and the memory of it are almost the same. New work shows how and why they are different.

Neuroscience, Memory, Perception, Cognitive Science

5 points by Anon84 130 days ago | 0 comments

AI Tools: Impacts on Cognitive Offloading and the Future of Critical Thinking (mdpi.com)
The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has transformed numerous aspects of daily life, yet its impact on critical thinking remains underexplored.

Artificial Intelligence, Critical Thinking, Cognitive Science

34 points by camillomiller 130 days ago | 14 comments

Maybe ChatGPT has some pre-frontal cortex problems (solresol.substack.com)
People have been complaining that ChatGPT has been degrading with each new version. This sounds like cognitive decline! Let’s administer some tests that might detect incipent dementia.

Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence, Language Models, Technology, Cognitive Science

19 points by solresol 132 days ago | 8 comments

The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint (2006) [pdf] (ed.ac.uk)

Cognitive Science, Software, User Interface, Microsoft

132 points by raviisoccupied 144 days ago | 75 comments

Is It Possible to Improve Memory or Are We Doomed to Forget as We Age? (2023) (nzherald.co.nz)
Memory is a fickle beast at the best of times, but it’s easy to think we’re sliding into a pandemic of forgetfulness, a collective midlife side-effect of living a life so fast-paced, we can’t possibly be expected to remember where we put the keys.