The study of consciousness stands at the absolute core of contemporary cognitive science. Throughout history, this phenomenon has been approached from ...

What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

A research team has explored the agreement or discrepancy between subjective social cognitive difficulties and actual cognitive impairment. Their study aimed to identify clinical subtypes in patients ...

An insight into why we overthink could have implications for treating anxiety and depression. Researchers at Northwestern University (IL, USA) have used fMRI to map the human brain’s social cognitive ...

Internal (mental) models as the basis for cognition Joseph LeDoux has written extensively on the evolution of cognition. He defines cognition as “the ability to use internal representations of ...

This is Part 2 of a five-part blog series exploring the nature of cognition and its relationship with consciousness. In Part 1, we considered the surprisingly elusive definition of cognition as well ...