Cognitive Science

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Neural decoders: saving the baby from the bathwater

Are we throwing out the baby with the bathwater in brain decoding research? Imagine sitting quietly with your eyes closed, feeling a gentle hum beneath your skin—a subtle vibration, a sense of awareness that something inside your mind is trying to tell you a story. That sensation, fleeting yet profound, is a glimpse into the […]

Published on June 7, 2025

Clockwise Bias in 2D Rotation: A Cognitive Rather Than Sensory Phenomenon

When Your Mind Prefers a Certain Spin: How Cognitive Bias Shapes Our Perception of Rotation Imagine you’re watching a simple animation of a spinning shape. Surprisingly, your brain might be more inclined to interpret that shape as rotating clockwise rather than counterclockwise. That subtle preference isn’t just a quirk of your eye — it reveals […]

Published on June 6, 2025

Learning a Novel Number System: The Role of Compositional Rules and Counting Procedures

Abstract Humans count to indefinitely large numbers by recycling words from a finite list, and combining them using rules—for example, combining sixty with unit labels to generate sixty-one, sixty-two, and so on. Past experimental research has focused on children learning base-10 systems, and has reported that this rule learning process is highly protracted. This raises […]

Published on June 6, 2025