Cognitive dissonance is a term for the state of discomfort felt when two or more modes of thought contradict each other. The clashing cognitions may include ideas, beliefs, or the knowledge that ...

Cognition, through a modern neurocognitive framework. Drawing on a modern neurocognitive framework, this full-color textbook introduces the entire field of cognition through an engaging narrative.

What has driven the need for humans? Intelligence? To gain insight into our own cognitive evolution, we can look to our closest living ancestors; our nonhuman primate cousins. Aa Aa Aa Cognition ...

In the Cognitive Science in Education program, students examine the cognitive mechanisms that underlie learning and thinking in school and non-school settings. Our program trains students in basic ...

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a form of psychotherapy that focuses on modifying dysfunctional emotions, behaviors, and thoughts by interrogating and uprooting negative or irrational beliefs.

Playing video games may boost your cognitive abilities and exercise can play a role in improving your mental health, but not the other way around, a large-scale study has found. The surprise ...

At small scales, in which animals navigate around their home territory, they can use dead reckoning, landmarks, and cognitive maps to navigate. Dead reckoning involves estimating the distance and ...

Former President Donald Trump has demanded Vice President Kamala Harris take a cognitive test, claiming Monday that his election rival’s “totally bonkers” replies to questions suggests there ...

Saint Louis University’s Geriatric Education Center (GEC) offers cognitive stimulation therapy (CST), a support group for people experiencing memory challenges. Cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) is ...

This 2003 book shows that even in a core cognitive domain like spatial thinking, language influences how people think, memorize and reason about spatial relations and directions. After outlining a ...

Mild cognitive impairment is when a person starts to have problems with their memory or thinking. It can be a sign of a disease that will eventually cause dementia but MCI is not dementia and can be ...

It is the subject of a new theory based on experiments showing that the grass is usually not greener on the other side of the fence and that grapes are sourest when ...