Cognitive Science

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Toward an understanding of collective intellectual humility

The study of intellectual humility (IH), which is gaining increasing interest among cognitive scientists, has been dominated by a focus on individuals. We propose that IH operates at the collective level as the tendency of a collective’s members to attend to each other’s intellectual limitations and the limitations of their collective cognitive efforts. Given people’s […]

Published on October 3, 2024

Cellular psychology: relating cognition to context-sensitive pyramidal cells

‘Cellular psychology’ is a new field of inquiry that studies dendritic mechanisms for adapting mental events to the current context, thus increasing their coherence, flexibility, effectiveness, and comprehensibility. Apical dendrites of neocortical pyramidal cells have a crucial role in cognition – those dendrites receive input from diverse sources, including feedback, and can amplify the cell’s […]

Published on October 2, 2024

When visual metacognition fails: widespread anosognosia for visual deficits

Anosognosia for visual deficits – cases where significant visual deficits go unnoticed – challenges the view that our own conscious experiences are what we know best. We review these widespread and striking failures of awareness. Anosognosia can occur with total blindness, visual abnormalities induced by brain lesions, and eye diseases. We show that anosognosia for […]

Published on October 1, 2024