by CSS Blog Team | Oct 19, 2020 | Academia
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 CSS Blog Team | Oct 5, 2020 | Review
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 CSS Blog Team | Sep 21, 2020 | Academia
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 CSS Blog Team | Sep 7, 2020 | Sub-fields
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...
by CSS Blog Team | Aug 24, 2020 | Members
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....
