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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Experimental psychology has long relied on a narrow slice of humanity, but these populations are often statistical outliers rather than universal… WEIRD by Joseph Henrich doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.8e9a83b0 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "WEIRD" by Joseph Henrich. WEIRD is a backronym that stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. It was coined in 2010 to label the populations most commonly sampled by researchers in the experimental be

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Beliefs provide the essential framework for predicting human behavior, yet science remains divided on whether they are measurable mental states or… Belief by Eric Mandelbaum and Cristina Ballarini doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.c09a632d #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Belief" by Eric Mandelbaum and Cristina Ballarini. Belief is the attitude we have when we regard something as true. People regard a large number and variety of things as true: for example, that 2 + 2 = 4, that God exists, that Trenton is the capital o

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Ownership shapes human behavior across cultures, yet whether it stems from innate cognitive structures or is purely a social invention remains… Ownership by Ori Friedman doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.6aa18129 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Ownership" by Ori Friedman. Ownership is a relationship between an agent and items regarded as the agent’s property. Ownership typically entails that the agent has rights over the property that are not shared by others. For exam

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Algorithmic systems often replicate existing social hierarchies, embedding systemic inequality into technical design, data choices, and real-world… Algorithmic Bias by Abeba Birhane doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.50c7e139 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Algorithmic Bias" by Abeba Birhane. Algorithmic bias refers to prejudicial, discriminatory, unjust, inaccurate, or otherwise disparate performance or outcomes from algorithmic systems based on racial, gender, or other attributes of an i

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Perception organizes sensory input into coherent wholes through innate grouping and segregation principles rather than by assembling individual parts. Gestalt Perception by Mary A. Peterson doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.20f19477 #CognitiveScience

Figure from the OECS article "Gestalt Perception".

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The long-standing debate over whether emotions are obstacles to rationality or essential guides for human judgment remains unresolved in modern… Foundations of Emotion by Christine Tappolet doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.788d38b2 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Foundations of Emotion" by Christine Tappolet. Emotions are typically felt experiences, which often involve strong motivations and are caused by things that are of concern to individuals, such as dangers. Emotions play a central role in people’s l

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sign language grammars reveal that human language faculty is independent of speech, flourishing in diverse communities from remote villages to… Sign Language by Carol Padden doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.ce72080b #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Sign Language" by Carol Padden. Sign language refers to a language form expressed in a different modality, using the hands, face, and body, in contrast to spoken language, which principally uses the vocal tract. Natural sign languag

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Learning from trial and error involves a complex interplay of neural circuits and computational processes that extend far beyond simple reward… Reinforcement Learning by Anne GE Collins doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.36d1ca92 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Reinforcement Learning" by Anne GE Collins. Reinforcement learning (RL) refers to a process in which an agent (biological or artificial) learns how to behave in its environment by using a simple type of information: reinforcers, which index how

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The human mind relies on a finite, multicomponent buffer to hold and manipulate information, creating the bottleneck that defines our cognitive… Working Memory by Graham J. Hitch and Alan D. Baddeley doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.4f342e36 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Working Memory" by Graham J. Hitch and Alan D. Baddeley. Working memory refers to the psychological limit on our capacity to attend to and manipulate stored temporary information in goal-directed thought and behavior. A classic example is mental calculation

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Shared human traits like language and music suggest deep psychological commonalities, though their emergence may also reflect convergent cultural… Cultural Universals by Manvir Singh doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.44a6d380 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Cultural Universals" by Manvir Singh. Music, language, ownership, and the use of fire are all cultural universals, or traits expressed in all known human populations. Spanning behaviors, technologies, affective states, institutions, and l

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The human mind instinctively extracts order from chaos, tracking probabilities across sounds and scenes to build complex knowledge from raw input. Statistical Learning by Jenny Saffran doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.7a74eed8 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Statistical Learning" by Jenny Saffran. Statistical learning refers to the ability to track patterns in the environment. These patterns occur in a wide array of domains (e.g., speech, scenes, melodies). Humans track statistics over stimuli

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Cognitive science evaluates human behavior against a shifting, patchwork history of normative standards ranging from formal logic to modern decision… Human Rationality in Research by Ulrike Hahn oecs.mit.edu/pub/aj80dki5 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Human Rationality in Research" by Ulrike Hahn. Rationality—that is, reasonable judgment, evaluation of evidence, and decision-making—is a topic that runs through cognitive science both on a methodological level and as a topic of empirical inquiry.

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Neuroscience has mapped the brain’s emotional circuitry, yet the puzzle remains of how these biological signals coalesce into a unified experience. Affective Neuroscience by Dean Mobbs doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.4d8ccc37 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Affective Neuroscience" by Dean Mobbs. The origins of the field of affective neuroscience go back over two millennia, yet the term was first used in 1992 to describe how different emotions are represented in the human and animal brain. Thi

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Distinguishing between a person's perceptual sensitivity and their internal decision-making bias is essential for interpreting performance under… Signal Detection Theory by John T. Wixted oecs.mit.edu/pub/608a12kc #CognitiveScience

Figure from the OECS article "Signal Detection Theory".

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Language relies on a flexible, distributed neural network that integrates beyond traditional speech centers to adapt to real-time communication… Neuroscience of Language by Gesa Hartwigsen doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.9793d1ae #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Neuroscience of Language" by Gesa Hartwigsen. Language is a key faculty for human communication. Across the last few decades, neuroimaging work provided insight into the contribution of distributed areas in the brain to different language operati

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Subjective experience challenges traditional science because it remains unclear how neural computations generate the feeling of what it is like to… Consciousness by Claire Sergent and Frédérique de Vignemont doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.0aea8c7d #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Consciousness" by Claire Sergent and Frédérique de Vignemont. Consciousness refers to our subjective experience, broadly construed. It thus embraces a wide range of phenomena from wakefulness and sentience to what it is like to have a particular experience. Seei

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Converting abstract thoughts into fluent speech requires a rapid, subconscious orchestration of syntactic structure, word choice, and motor planning. Language Production by Zenzi M. Griffin doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.b076f599 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Language Production" by Zenzi M. Griffin. Speakers are typically aware of the ideas they want to express but not the steps involved in getting from those ideas to a series of motor movements. Consider describing an image with the sentence, “B

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The brain is not a static organ, but a dynamic system that physically rewires its own circuitry in response to learning, injury, and environmental… Neuroplasticity by Marina Bedny doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3d4df41d #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Neuroplasticity" by Marina Bedny. Neuroplasticity is the capacity of the brain to change as a result of external influence and internal activity. It underpins learning from the environment, from others and from our own thoughts. Neuro

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Often overshadowed by the five classical senses, the vestibular system acts as an ancient, silent anchor for navigation, memory, and our fundamental… Vestibular System by Christophe Lopez doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.bc3a43dd #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Vestibular System" by Christophe Lopez. The vestibular system is a key sensory system responsible for self-motion perception and spatial orientation, working in concert with visual, muscular, joint, and tactile receptors to maintain balance

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Human causal reasoning relies on internal mental models that allow us to simulate counterfactual worlds and compare them against what actually… Causal Reasoning by David Lagnado doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.0de13fd2 #CognitiveScience

Figure from the OECS article "Causal Reasoning".

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Philosophers treat skepticism not as stubborn denial, but as a logical trap revealing fundamental tensions in our concepts of knowledge and evidence. Skepticism by Santiago Echeverri doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.95725785 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Skepticism" by Santiago Echeverri. In everyday life, people think of skepticism as the position of a stubborn person who rejects what other people believe in. Some skeptics may deny that climate change is real, while others claim that

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Intelligence tests measure specific cognitive aptitudes, yet the field remains marked by the tension between useful psychological metrics and their… Intelligence by K. Paige Harden doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.2aa90758 #CognitiveScience

Figure from the OECS article "Intelligence".

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Widened diagnostic criteria and shifting cultural definitions have transformed autism from a rare clinical diagnosis into a broad, heterogeneous… Autism by Uta Frith doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.db4c7c20 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Autism" by Uta Frith. The concept of autism has undergone a huge transformation since the 1940s when it was first given a name. Originally, it referred to a rare neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by severe impairme

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The brain instantly resolves ambiguous visual input into coherent scenes by running lightning-fast, unconscious logical inferences before we even see. Unconscious Inference by Patrick Cavanagh doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.3bef4aa1 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Unconscious Inference" by Patrick Cavanagh. Unconscious inference refers to the rapid and unconscious, high-level choices made by the visual system to quickly organize input from the eyes into a coherent scene comprising objects, depth, light,

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Scientific consensus struggles to define "basic" tastes, as our perception of flavor is often an illusion dominated by smell rather than the tongue. Taste by Charles Spence doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.704d8d25 #CognitiveScience

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Distinguishing between our species and other animals requires balancing subtle quantitative differences with the unique, complex interplay of our… Uniquely Human Cognition by Daniel B. M. Haun doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.2760bd31 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Uniquely Human Cognition" by Daniel B. M. Haun. Uniquely human cognition refers to aspects of cognition that are specific to our evolutionary lineage and distinguish us from other animals, including our closest living relatives, the nonhuman primat

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The human brain balances a seemingly perfect capacity for memory with a notorious susceptibility to misidentification in real-world scenarios. Face Perception by A. Mike Burton doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.57de91a4 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Face Perception" by A. Mike Burton. The human face sends many different signals. We can identity somebody, if we happen to know them, but we can also judge their emotional state from their expression, perhaps read their lips if they are

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Language challenges the rule of arbitrary meaning through recurring, non-random associations between the sounds we articulate and the concepts they… Sound Symbolism by Mutsumi Imai and Kimi Akita doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.4ea61aa9 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Sound Symbolism" by Mutsumi Imai and Kimi Akita. Sound symbolism is the nonarbitrary association between (speech) sound and meaning. The association may be iconic (i.e., based on resemblance, as with beep for a high electronic noise and zigzag for a

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The brain’s continuous monitoring of internal physiological states may be the fundamental mechanism that grounds our sense of self. Interoception by Catherine Tallon-Baudry doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.84963756 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Interoception" by Catherine Tallon-Baudry. Interoception refers to how the brain senses, consciously or unconsciously, physiological signals coming from inside the body. It includes a broad range of signals, mechanisms, and functions. It infor

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

While humans often assume they have direct access to their inner lives, cognitive science suggests our self-reports are frequently post hoc… Introspection by Jérôme Sackur doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.a685b0e0 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Introspection" by Jérôme Sackur. Introspection (etymologically, “looking inward”) refers to the ability to access one’s own mental life and the results thereof. It stands in contrast to perception, the ability to connect with the wor

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Brain research reveals that our neural systems treat human interaction as a distinct computational process, separate from general reasoning. Social Cognitive Neuroscience by Rebecca Saxe doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.0276fa5e #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Social Cognitive Neuroscience" by Rebecca Saxe. People spend a lot of their brain energy thinking about people. Social cognitive neuroscience is the field of research that investigates how this works. Research in this field asks questions about the

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Distinguishing between involuntary displays and flexible, intentional signals remains central to understanding whether human language evolved from… Primate Communication by Katja Liebal doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.54c9be0b #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Primate Communication" by Katja Liebal. Comparative psychologists interested in the evolution of human language often aim at identifying potential precursors to human language in other species, so they focus on the communicative systems of

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Auditory perception challenges vision-centric theories by organizing the world through temporal structure rather than the spatial depth dominant in… Hearing by Casey O’Callaghan doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.7a7ee600 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Hearing" by Casey O’Callaghan. Hearing, also known as audition, is a modality of sensory perception in which one detects and differentiates things and features in the environment by transducing and extracting information from press

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reading is a cultural invention that repurposes existing brain systems rather than an innate ability, explaining why mastery requires years of… Literacy by Kathleen Rastle doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.dcf0298d #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Literacy" by Kathleen Rastle. Literacy refers to the ability to read and write. Literacy is fundamental to many aspects of modern life, but it is not a capacity that humans develop naturally. Instead, children need to be taught to

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Debates over whether the mind is built from specialized components connect modern cognitive science to a centuries-old quest to map mental… Modularity by Richard Samuels doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.afbd5860 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Modularity" by Richard Samuels. The term “module” is typically used by cognitive scientists to denote mental components or subsystems that are, in some suitable way, distinct and specialized. So construed, debates regarding modulari

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The subjective feeling of control often diverges from reality, revealing that our sense of agency is a computational inference rather than a direct… Sense of Agency by Patrick Haggard doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.7b88a436 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Sense of Agency" by Patrick Haggard. Sense of agency refers to the subjective experience of controlling one’s own actions and, through them, events in the outside world. The subjective sense of agency should be distinguished from the obj

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Human cognition relies on goal-driven categories that organize items not by their outward similarities, but by their utility in achieving a specific… Ad Hoc Categories by Lawrence W. Barsalou doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.2bb82513 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Ad Hoc Categories" by Lawrence W. Barsalou. Because the members of an ad hoc category are dissimilar to one another, they are not normally perceived as a category. Children, pets, and family heirlooms, for example, do not appear to form a categ

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Modeling the mind as an optimal system reveals how human cognition is precisely tuned to the statistical demands of our environment. Rational Analysis by John R. Anderson doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.b3b3e5e7 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Rational Analysis" by John R. Anderson. Rational analysis is an approach to understanding human cognition that treats it as optimized to solve problems given certain constraints. For example, a rational analysis of memory starts from the id

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Language often transcends arbitrary conventions, as the form of a word or sign can directly mirror the physical properties of its meaning. Iconicity by David M. Sidhu doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.515b2685 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Iconicity" by David M. Sidhu. Iconicity refers to instances in which the form of a signal (e.g., the sound of a word, the shape of a hand sign) is perceived as resembling its meaning in some way. A notable example in spoken langua

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Imagining future events requires the same neural machinery as recalling the past, suggesting that memory exists primarily to help us simulate… Episodic Future Thinking by Donna Rose Addis and Daniel L. Schacter doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.112fbf72 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Episodic Future Thinking" by Donna Rose Addis and Daniel L. Schacter. Prospection is an umbrella term for the many types of future-oriented cognition humans engage in and is studied across different subdisciplines of cognitive science. Within cognitive psychology and ne

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Reasoning evolved not as a solitary quest for truth, but as a specialized social tool for evaluating and producing arguments with others. Reasoning and Argumentation by Hugo Mercier doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.96cf440a #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Reasoning and Argumentation" by Hugo Mercier. By a common definition, reasoning is the private mental act of weighing reasons to decide whether to accept a given conclusion. In argumentation, reasons in favor of a conclusion are exchanged between

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Consciousness requires more than just a mental state; it depends on our capacity to be aware of those states as they occur. Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness by David Rosenthal doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.417ea271 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness" by David Rosenthal. Higher-order theories of consciousness seek to explain what it is for a mental state to be conscious. In particular, they seek to explain how mental states that are conscious differ from mental states

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Brain imaging reveals how our automatic neural responses to group identity shape the way we perceive, categorize, and judge others. Intergroup Neuroscience by David M. Amodio doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.6673bc2b #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Intergroup Neuroscience" by David M. Amodio. Intergroup neuroscience investigates the neural basis of group-based responses, such as prejudice and stereotyping—that is, the neural processes through which group identity influences perception, jud

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Connecting neural maturation to behavioral milestones allows researchers to map the biological foundations of how the mind emerges during childhood. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience by Hilary Richardson oecs.mit.edu/pub/9ieavrmm #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience" by Hilary Richardson. Developmental cognitive neuroscientists study the baby, child, and adolescent brain to learn when and how cognition develops. Neuroscience techniques—electroencephalography (EEG), functional near-infr

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Reconstructing the origins of language requires navigating a fossil record that doesn't exist, shifting the focus from biological adaptation to… Language Evolution by Morten H. Christiansen doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.34857b04 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Language Evolution" by Morten H. Christiansen. The study of language evolution aims to uncover why language is the way it is and how it came to be that way. Answering these questions is difficult because the typical methods for studying the evolut

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Making scientific research transparent, reproducible, and accessible is the modern standard for ensuring that evidence survives independent scrutiny. Open Science by Tom E. Hardwicke and Simine Vazire doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.cdacaf45 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Open Science" by Tom E. Hardwicke and Simine Vazire. Open science refers to a set of principles and practices that promote transparency in science. The core idea is to make it easy for others to access, verify, and build on scientific research, for exam

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Social learning is not a uniquely human trait, as evidence across species shows that behaviors ranging from foraging to migration are often… Animal Culture by Carel P. van Schaik doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.6dfbcb34 #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Animal Culture" by Carel P. van Schaik. Culture can be defined as all knowledge and skills acquired through some form of social learning—learning influenced by social input—and usually transmitted across generations. Its prominent role in g

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Viewing the mind as a computing system drives modern cognitive science, yet critics argue this framework struggles to account for consciousness and… Computational Theory of Mind by Matteo Colombo oecs.mit.edu/pub/cmg9r89u #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Computational Theory of Mind" by Matteo Colombo. The computational theory of mind (CTM) claims that the mind is a computing system. Support for this claim comes from the success of artificial computing systems at performing certain learning, reasoni

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Supervenience provides a rigorous framework for mapping how high-level cognitive states rely on, yet remain distinct from, underlying physical… Supervenience by Karen Bennett doi.org/10.21428/e2759450.e1fde27d #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Supervenience" by Karen Bennett. Philosophers and cognitive scientists sometimes say that one phenomenon obtains in virtue of some other phenomenon. While expressions like this can indicate causation, they are also frequently used in

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Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science bot @oecs-bot.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Creativity is not the province of rare genius, but a fundamental cognitive capacity that relies on the interplay between divergent thinking and… Creativity by Mathias Benedek oecs.mit.edu/pub/wr2z56el #CognitiveScience

Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science: "Creativity" by Mathias Benedek. In cognitive science, creativity is usually defined as the production of a solution, behavior, or outcome that is both novel and effective. Novelty refers to how uncommon, different, or surprising a s

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