Tag: brain science
The real story behind Groupthink.
Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon that occurs within a group of people in which the desire for harmony or conformity in the group results in an irrational or…
Risk compensation is stranger than it sounds.
Risk compensation is a theory which suggests that people typically adjust their behavior in response to perceived levels of risk, becoming more careful where they sense greater risk…
The facts behind Cognitive load.
In cognitive psychology, cognitive load is the effort being used in the working memory.
What people get wrong about Mental rotation.
Mental rotation is the ability to rotate mental representations of two-dimensional and three-dimensional objects as it is related to the visual representation of such rotation within the human…
Eidetic memory deserves a closer look.
Eidetic memory, also known as photographic memory and total recall, is the ability to recall an image from memory with high precision—at least for a brief period of…
The sourced background on Working memory.
Working memory is a cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.
Chunking is stranger than it sounds.
In cognitive psychology, chunking is a process by which small individual pieces of a set of information are bound together to create a meaningful whole later on in…
What people get wrong about Neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity, also known as neural plasticity or just plasticity, is the medium of neural networks in the brain to change through growth and reorganization.
The simple version of Reward system.
The reward system is a group of neural structures responsible for incentive salience, associative learning, and positively-valenced emotions, particularly ones involving pleasure as a core component.
What people get wrong about Dopamine.
Dopamine is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several important roles in cells.