Cognition

Can you imagine a life without forgetting? The truth is that erasing outdated or meaningless memories is as instead important as creating new ones, both facilitate the ability to learn while generalizing.

Want to squeeze the life out of a tiny fluffy kitten? Well, you are not alone.

Change is stressful and can be hard to accept, but our brains are up to the challenge.

Do our brains tell the same story when we look at real and virtual faces? It appears, not quite. If virtual faces are not exactly the real deal, should we use them in psychology and neuroscience research?

A film on a fancy TV can feel fake. This is because our brain uses previous experience to interpret the world.

We experience the world through our senses. What happens though when sensory inputs become too much (or too little) to bear from a very young age? Surely, the world must feel different, and our experience of it would change along.

A man reports his whole world frequently flips by 90 degrees. He is not alone. Researchers at the Donders institute aim to investigate this curious phenomenon.

It is often said that incompetent people overestimate themselves and competent people underestimate themselves. However, this so-called ‘Dunning-Kruger’ effect may not be the phenomenon that people think it is.

Have you already heard about xenobots? They are robots assembled from living tissue whose design has been informed by a computer algorithm. Researchers who created them are transforming our understanding of what a robot is.

How is it possible that we sometimes overlook visible things? Paying attention to one thing makes you blind to (almost) everything else.