A Ross Otto,Andrew Westbrook,Jean Daunizeau
A Ross Otto
A widespread observation is that people avoid mentally effortful courses of action, and much recent work examining cognitive effort has explained subjective effort evaluation - and, consequently, preferences - in economic terms, which assum...
Andrew R Todd,Diana I Tamir
Andrew R Todd
Mental life is filled with thoughts about the social world and one's place in it. Mentalizing, or ascribing mental content (e.g., preferences, beliefs, visuospatial perspectives) to others and oneself, often requires considering self-repres...
H Steven Scholte,Edward H F de Haan
H Steven Scholte
Marco Tamietto,Davide Orsenigo,Lars Chittka
Marco Tamietto
Blindsight patients lack conscious visual perception yet perform visual tasks effectively, suggesting many animals may similarly rely on non-conscious vision. Here, we discuss how to investigate visual consciousness in miniature brains, usi...
Laura Anna Ciaccio,Luca Rinaldi
Laura Anna Ciaccio
A long-standing question in cognitive sciences concerns the specific contribution of linguistic and sensorimotor experience in shaping conceptual knowledge. A new study by Xu et al. shows that large language models (LLMs) represent a powerf...
Patrick Butlin,Robert Long,Tim Bayne et al.
Patrick Butlin et al.
Rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities has drawn fresh attention to the prospect of consciousness in AI. There is an urgent need for rigorous methods to assess AI systems for consciousness, but significant uncertainty a...
Julia W Y Kam
Julia W Y Kam
Electrophysiological markers of spontaneous thought are well established, yet less is known regarding the timescales of two core dimensions: task relatedness and thought orientation. In a recent study, Hua and colleagues reported dissociabl...
Corina U Greven,MacKenzie D Trupp,Judith R Homberg et al.
Corina U Greven et al.
In recent years, scientific interest in sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), a personality trait reflecting increased sensitivity, reactivity, and deeper processing of stimuli, has grown exponentially. Building on this momentum, we synthes...
Laura J Kray,Sonya Mishra,Charlotte H Townsend et al.
Laura J Kray et al.
Despite decades of progress, gender inequalities in workplace authority and compensation persist. This review reveals recent advances in understanding how gendered careers emerge through three psychological mechanisms prevalent in organizat...
Aidan J Horner
Aidan J Horner
Episodic memories are highly dynamic and change in nonlinear ways over time. This dynamism is not captured by existing systems consolidation theories that predict a unidirectional process where memories are first supported by the hippocampu...