In school, I recall creating numerous spider diagrams during lessons. You’d put your subject in the middle and branch out ...

A Systems Approach separates thinking into quick, instinctive decisions or careful, considered ones. In an emergency, most ...

Kahneman (2011) suggests that our decision-making in emergency situations reflects a dual-processing model of thinking, which enables us to use the most appropriate approach to meet the demands of ...

Humans are innately capable of recognizing other people they have seen before. This capability ultimately allows them to ...

In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, biomedical engineers have shown how two brain regions quickly ...

Kajal Schiller designed a computer simulation game to measure whether socioeconomic status might determine how likely people ...

A better understanding of how the human brain represents objects that exist in nature, such as rocks, plants, animals, and so ...

We’re not driven only by emotions, of course—we also reason, deliberate. But reasoning comes later, works slower—and even then, it doesn’t take place in an emotional vacuum.

Predictive processing is an influential framework in neuroscience that posits the brain as a prediction machine—constantly generating and updating internal ...