When we launched the Psychonomic Society’s featured content site back in 2014, we had a simple idea: take the remarkable work of cognitive scientists and make it approachable, inviting a broader community into the conversation. Over the years, we did just that. Through blog posts (over 800!), podcasts (6 seasons!), interviews, research highlights, and digital […]
If attention were a muscle, most of us would swear ours had been skipping leg day. One minute you’re reading an email, the next you’re three tabs deep into a recipe for a croquembouche that looks like a “Kraken bush”—and you don’t remember how you got there. Psychologists call the ability to stay on task […]
Years ago, I was staying with a few flatmates during an exchange program. Conversations in this type of setting tend to have a good dose of randomness, and here is a funny one that I remembered while writing this post. One day, one of my flatmates asked: “Have you seen a red and purple toothbrush?” […]
One of the greatest (and, in my opinion, most overlooked) aspects of science is that it is a process inherently founded on and driven by community. Almost all ongoing research questions are derived from prior research, and the outputs of ongoing research will inevitably inspire new lines of work and discovery. Scientific discoveries are ultimately […]
In this podcast episode, Jonathan Caballero interviews Dr. Angela de Bruin about a recent paper published in Memory and Cognition exploring how brief listening exposure to people switching languages can influence the speakers’ language control behavior. Transcript Melinh Lai: You’re listening to All Things Cognition, a Psychonomic Society podcast. Jonathan Caballero: Welcome to All Things […]
Humans are quite skilled at detecting patterns subconsciously. If you listen to a new song for the first time, you can probably follow the beat or predict how the melody will change next. If you go into a new grocery store, you can probably navigate to the potatoes based on your experience in other stores. […]
Technology has changed dramatically since I started as a Digital Associate Editor for the Psychonomic Society digital team almost 10 years ago. According to Google AI Generator, “Since 2016, technology has advanced significantly, primarily driven by major breakthroughs and widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning. Other key areas of advancement include 5G […]
It feels a bit odd to say this as an academic, but I am largely very glad to not be a student anymore. I do not miss sitting in crowded lecture halls, or taking exams, or studying for long hours into the night before said exams. I especially don’t miss feeling like I wasted so […]
At this point, we’ve probably all spent more time than we want to think about on Zoom calls. Whether that’s meeting with students or collaborators when we’re spread across countries (or the planet), or committee meetings, or even social events, if you’re reading this, you’re probably more familiar than you want to be with a […]
Every year, people eagerly await the arrival of the fall colors, and if you’re like me, you’ve checked the forecasts for peak foliage to find the best time to go leaf peeping. You might be surprised to learn that there’s a fair bit of science that goes into forecasting the arrival of those fall leaves, […]