Non-contingent learning data can produce an apparent “illusory” or “false” perception of causality (“causal illusion”), especially if a potential caus…

Memories tend to form networks that reflect relationships between experiences. These networks, or cognitive graphs, have been used to study how struct…

Comprehenders in many of the world’s languages exhibit a preference or a greater ease in comprehending transitive relative clauses (RCs) when associat…

Humans constantly compare their visual memories with similar visual inputs to modify their behavior adaptively. However, basic and applied studies sug…

We tend to interpret feedback in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs. Such confirmatory tendencies are often viewed as cognitive flaws, but mig…

Being unpredictable is useful for creativity, exploration, and good decision-making. Decades of research asking people to generate random sequences of…

The ability to differentiate highly overlapping stimuli or experiences in memory (and the behavioral lure discrimination outcomes that reflect this ab…

Human observers remember some images more reliably than others, a phenomenon known as image memorability, a stimulus-driven property that predicts rel…

This research examines the dynamic relationship between the two dimensions of humanity perception – human nature (HN) and human uniqueness (HU) – as d…

Understanding facial expressions is vital for communication because they convey essential emotional and social cues. While many studies have focused o…

Non-symbolic numerical competence, supported by the approximate number system (ANS), is widespread across animals, yet it remains unclear whether simi…

Declaring that you are right or wrong is not merely a factual matter, but often a deeply social decision about when to own up to the limits of your kn…

Studies of morphosyntactic processing have shown that speakers rely on grammatical gender cues and are sensitive to gender agreement violations during…

This paper aims to clear up the epistemology of learning morality from artificial moral advisors (AMAs). We start with a brief consideration of what counts as moral enhancement and consider the risk of deskilling raised by machines that offer moral ...

Counterfactual thinking — considering what could have come of choosing the other path — can facilitate inference. Previous studies have demonstrated t…

Duration estimates are systematically biased toward the mean of recently sampled intervals, a central-tendency effect typically attributed to the inte…

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