Cognition

Curiosity is an important motivator in our search for knowledge. Research shows that we are mostly curious about information that reduces uncertainty about our world

In order to create better products, ideas, or situations, it is important to add the right elements but often also to omit them. Research shows that humans don’t naturally do this…

Is our behavior shaped by nature or by nurture, that is, by genes or by environment? Nature and nurture are not exactly like chicken and egg, but more like one big chicken-egg scramble that simmers continuously throughout our lives and is stirred and seasoned all the time.

Press your face firmly into the snow and the imprint looks like the real thing. This optical illusion reveals how your brain functions.

The representation of mental disorders in society and pop culture repeatedly misses, at best, the nuances associated with the experience of living with a mental disorder. In the attempt of characterizing psychiatric disorders by creating dramatic and oversimplified caricatures, have we failed to recognize something fundamental that we all share to some extent despite our diagnostic boundaries?

Research from the Donders institute reveals that imagining something can be very much like seeing it with your eyes, and vice versa.

Imagine that it’s Christmas and, as every year, you ask for money— no risk of being disappointed and you can buy whatever you want with it. But it doesn’t quite feel the same as if you’d received a surprise, does it?

It has become easier to train an algorithm than it is to reason about whether or not one should.

New research shows that mindfulness as a treatment for ADHD, also brings forth insight, acceptation and improved relationships.

Recent research shows that infants tailor attention towards what they learn from the most.