Cognitive Science

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Mind Reading and Writing: The Future of Neurotechnology

Recent advances in neuroscience and technology have made it possible to record from large assemblies of neurons and to decode their activity to extract information. At the same time, available methods to stimulate the brain and influence ongoing processing are also rapidly expanding. These developments pave the way for advanced neurotechnological applications that directly read […]

Published on May 3, 2018

Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong about Identity

What makes someone the same person over time? There is a growing body of research exploring how people ordinarily think about personal identity. We argue here that many of the experiments in this domain fail to properly distinguish similarity from personal identity, and therefore certain conclusions regarding commonsense intuitions about identity are not supported. Read […]

Published on May 2, 2018