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New insights into how to correct false knowledge
1 day ago
by Duke University
The abundance of false information available on the Internet, in movies and on TV has created a big challenge for educators. Students sometimes arrive in classrooms filled with inaccurate knowledge they are confident is correct, indicating it is deeply entrenched in their memory. According to Duke U ...
PsyPost - psypost.org · Rank: 12,557 ·  11 references
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Enhance Metacognition and Problem-Solving by Talking Out Loud to Yourself
1 day ago
by Judith C. Tingley, PhD
The MC at the University of Michigan’s reunion dinner encouraged audience members to reveal the most significant take-away from their undergraduate nursing education. The greatest benefit was quickly clear to me — problem-solving thinking. Memory produced a mind video: a short, dark-haired, nursing ...
SharpBrains - sharpbrains.com · Rank: 16,545 · 1573 references
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Stimulation cérébrale : le temps des questions éthiques
2 days ago
by Rémi Sussan
Dans l’attente des hypothétiques implants Google qui pourraient nous faire accéder directement à la richesse du net (et à ses publicités), on a le plus souvent pensé que “l’amélioration” des facultés mentales passait par la culture, ou à la rigueur les exercices, voire par la chimie. Il existait bie ...
InternetActu.net - internetactu.net · Rank: 3,022 · 1100 references
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COGNITION: CORRELATION AND CAUSE
3 days ago
by wmmbb
What explanatory power, if any, does the research findings have that people with less cognitive skills than average are more likely to be prejudiced against others and to be attracted to conservative belief systems? Could it be, for example, that such people are subject to greater social pressure th ...
DUCKPOND - wmmbb.wordpress.com · Rank: 84,545 · 25 references
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Creative Conversation
3 days ago
by jennymackness
This is the subject of Chapter 4 of Prof Pierre Lévy’s book: THE SEMANTIC SPHERE COMPUTATION, COGNITION AND THE INFORMATION ECONOMY Volume 1, which he has shared with ChangeMooc this week This is a fascinating chapter on many counts and I found it easier to read and relate to that Chapter 1. Prof Lé ...
Jenny Connected - jennymackness.wordpress.com · Rank: 34,358 · 41 references
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Fitelson on fallacies, cognition, and confirmation
3 days ago
by Vincenzo Crupi
As already noticed at Leiter Reports, Branden Fitelson has a very nice recent podcast in a series of interviews by the graduate students at the University of Chicago. There's a couple of papers that Branden mentions as particularly relevant for his fascinating discussion. For those interested, they ...
M-Phi - m-phi.blogspot.com · 10 references
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