I recently conducted the following interview with Dr. Andrew Wilson and Dr. Sabrina Golonka, authors of the popular blog PyschScienceNotes, about embodied cognition. I reached out to them to offer ...
Cognitive scientist Benjamin K. Bergen’s Louder Than Words: The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning recounts that the parts of the brain engaged when throwing a baseball also fire up when ...
How has Homo sapiens uncovered the laws of nature, invented technology and established culture and institutions? Most scientists' answers to that question have been top-heavy, referring to language, ...
Clinical psychology has long recognized that psychological distress and therapeutic change involve more than cognitive processes alone. Emotion regulation, ...
Have you ever deburred a dog? I have, and that distinctive experience (the dog in question was a black hound mix, and the burrs were like brownish green stars in his fur) was responsible for some ...
Embodied cognition is the latest sexy topic in cognitive science. There is, however, a great deal of confusion about exactly what it means and how to study it. A lot of studies have hit the headlines ...