By Lilia Rissman Sketch by Natalia Vélez You were always there in the background – two lockers down, two rows back in band practice. But walking the hallways of school these past months, I find myself looking at you in a new way. I’ll never know how it happened...
By Andrew Lampinen Banner image sketch by Natalia Vélez. The flexibility of human cognition is remarkable. We can perform a new task (for example, playing a new videogame) decently after a few minutes of experience. We can then adapt our knowledge to new...
By Mohammad Wiswall Before the pandemic, there used to exist something… a place known as a coffee shop. There you could have a peculiar drink that Italians would call “caffe” and Americans would call coffee. Coffee used to be the center of this bustling place...
By Ava Ma De Sousa This piece was originally posted on cogbites. Has anyone ever asked you if you are ‘right-brained’ or ‘left-brained’? Maybe you have even taken a Buzzfeed quiz to see which of these two sides ‘dominates’ your behavior. Though there is...
This summer, Gordon Bower, a leader in the field of cognitive science, passed away at age 87. He was well-known as a brilliant researcher and generous mentor. His colleagues and former mentees recently shared some of their memories and appreciations with us....
