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Teresa Bajo Receives Prestigious Award From Psychonomic Society
APS Board Member Teresa Bajo has been honored with the Psychonomic Society’s Clifford T. Morgan Distinguished Leadership Award, which recognizes individuals for their significant contributions to the field of cognitive psychology.
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Why Memory Fails Us
Human sensory systems are almost as good as they can get, but memory is pretty fallible. We often misremember or downright can't remember. Ours can't hold a candle to artificial memory. But, there are plus sides to this, related to creativity, as explained by Auckland University Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience Anthony Lambert.
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Scientists Use A.I. to Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
Companies like OpenAI and Meta are in a race to make something they like to call artificial general intelligence. But for all the money being spent on it, A.G.I. has no settled definition. It’s more of an aspiration to create something indistinguishable from the human mind. ... Some experts gave Centaur high marks. “It’s pretty impressive,” said Russ Poldrack, a cognitive scientist at Stanford University who was not involved in the study. “This is really the first model that can do all these types of tasks in a way that’s just like a human subject.” Ilia Sucholutsky, a computer scientist at New York University, was struck by how well Centaur performed.
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Happiness Doesn’t Have to Be a Heavy Lift
I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed lately, both by the news and by a bit of life stuff. I wish I could retreat to a mountaintop, but my more realistic plan is to seek out the smallest possible things I can do each day to give myself a lift. Every morning, for instance, I open my Merlin Bird ID app to see if any new birds have shown up in my backyard. (This morning I learned about a Northern Flicker, a bird I did not know existed.) Micro-moments of positivity like this really can improve your well-being, said Barbara Fredrickson, director of the Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Discipline Is Overrated. Here’s What People Are Doing Instead
Now that it’s summer, I need to go to the gym and eat healthy — and I should probably add meditation to the list, too. Not only do I need to start these habits; I need discipline to stick to them. ... “You don’t have to try or make a decision to form habits,” said Dr. Wendy Wood, Provost Professor Emerita of Psychology and Business at the University of Southern California Dornsife.
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Two Maps In the Mind: How the Brain Stores What We Know About Others
Podcast: Why does the brain use two different reference systems to encode social knowledge? Under the Cortex explores.
