Trends in cognitive sciences
May 8, 2025
Work is a central source of identity and meaning. The rapid and widespread adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping workplaces. Unlike previous technologies, GenAI can demonstrate cognitive, creative, and interpersonal capa...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Apr 14, 2025
The classical view of visual cortex organization as a collection of specialized modules processing distinct features like color and motion has profoundly influenced neuroscience for decades. This framework, rooted in historical philosophical distinct...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Apr 11, 2025
The ethical frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding as humans form romantic relationships with AIs. Addressing ethical issues of AIs as invasive suitors, malicious advisers, and tools of exploitation requires new psychological research ...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Mar 19, 2025
Cognitive neuroscience research has begun to use natural language processing (NLP) to examine memory narratives with the hopes of gaining a nuanced understanding of the mechanisms underlying differences in memory recall, both across groups and tasks....
Trends in cognitive sciences
Jan 7, 2025
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) reshapes and challenges psychological ownership of created content. This article examines how GenAI disrupts original content creators' and GenAI users' sense of ownership and control and illustrates how bot...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Sep 30, 2024
Humans and machines rarely have access to explicit external feedback or supervision, yet manage to learn. Most modern machine learning systems succeed because they benefit from unsupervised data. Humans are also expected to benefit and yet, mysteriou...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Sep 18, 2024
Canonical cases of learning involve novel observations external to the mind, but learning can also occur through mental processes such as explaining to oneself, mental simulation, analogical comparison, and reasoning. Recent advances in artificial in...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Apr 21, 2024
Rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have driven interest in its potential application for lie detection. Unfortunately, the current approaches have primarily focused on technical aspects at the expense of a solid methodological and the...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Jan 8, 2024
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in academic research raises pressing ethical concerns. I examine major publishing policies in science and medicine, uncovering inconsistencies and limitations in guiding AI usage. To encourage ...
Trends in cognitive sciences
Dec 29, 2023
In this article we investigate the societal implications of empathic artificial intelligence (AI), asking how its seemingly empathic expressions make people feel. We highlight AI's unique ability to simulate empathy without the same biases that affli...