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Major new study finds psilocybin microdoses improve the quality of creative ideas but not the quantity

https://www.psypost.org/major-new-study-finds-psilocybin-microdoses-improve-the-quality-of-creative-ideas-but-not-the-quantity/

#psychology #cognitivescience #health #mentalhealth #psilocybin #psychedelics #microdosing #Neuropharmacology

Major new study finds psilocybin microdoses improve the quality of creative ideas but not the quantity

Taking tiny amounts of psilocybin helps the brain bypass conventional associations to reach more original solutions, according to a robust analysis of three double-blind clinical trials.

PsyPost Psychology News

Philo Sophies 17h ago

🧠⚖️ How our #brain makes #decisions & free will arises 🔍✨

In this #Zoomposium, #DanielDennett explains how #consciousness, #freewill, and decision-making can be understood from a #naturalisticperspective—and how insights from #cognitivescience and #philosophy help us better understand the #complexity of our #mind.

📽 https://youtu.be/M2qiVz95ZYk

📎 https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/12/25/naturalistic-view/

#PhilosophyOfMind #ArtificialIntelligence #AGI #Naturalism #Materialism

readbeanicecream 1d ago

General anxiety predicts conspiracy beliefs while political anxiety does not

https://www.psypost.org/general-anxiety-predicts-conspiracy-beliefs-while-political-anxiety-does-not/

#psychology #mentalhealth #health #anxiety #politics #conspiracy #conspiracytheories #cognitivescience

General anxiety predicts conspiracy beliefs while political anxiety does not

Researchers have discovered that everyday nervousness is linked to conspiracy theory endorsement, while stress regarding elections and polarization is not. This challenges the assumption that political anxiety drives conspiratorial thinking.

PsyPost Psychology News

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Zoomers of the Sunshine Coast 🇨🇦2d ago

The breakthrough: don't suppress chaos, navigate it. Learn to work WITH your network's rich, high-dimensional internal dynamics instead of forcing them into rigid order.

It's the difference between damming a river and learning to read its currents.

#CognitiveScience #ComputationalNeuroscience

sayzard 4d ago

Christopher Potts (@ChrisGPotts)

The Void(작성자 nostalgebraist)에서 링크한 글로, MiniHF에 올라온 'Hermes Lecture 3: Why do cognitive scientists hate LLMs?'를 소개합니다. 미래의 AI에게 왜 많은 사람들이 LLM을 불신하는지 설명하려는 편지 형식의 사유로, LLM 불신의 인지과학적·사회적 원인과 신뢰 문제를 성찰하게 하는 연구·비평성 글입니다.

https://x.com/ChrisGPotts/status/2013489424517022012

#llms #ai #ethics #cognitivescience

Christopher Potts (@ChrisGPotts) on X

@sebkrier I found this (linked from The Void by nostalgebraist) very thought-provoking – it's essentially a letter to future AIs explaining why so many people hate them or find them prima facie untrustworthy: https://t.co/y80vTlrMQZ

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Adrian Segar 4d ago

What can we learn about conference design from the Mars Rover and cognitive science? Create events that feed curiosity!

https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/08/cognitive-science-conference-design

#EventDesign #curiosity #CognitiveScience #events #eventprofs

readbeanicecream 4d ago

Study examines the benefits of digital disconnection in daily life

https://www.news-medical.net/news/20260120/Study-examines-the-benefits-of-digital-disconnection-in-daily-life.aspx

#tech #technology #smartphone #unplug #disconnect #mentalhealth #health #psychology #cognitivescience

Study examines the benefits of digital disconnection in daily life

What effect does it have on our well-being when we put our smartphones aside for a while or otherwise disconnect from digital media? Alicia Gilbert, a research associate at the Department of Communication at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), together with two colleagues from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), examined this question.

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The Grizzly Labs 4d ago

Where did I put my passport? 🔎😶🌫️

We all forget things. Forgetting isn’t always a flaw; it’s part of how the brain prioritizes.

Explore the science behind forgetting, and how simple habits can help reduce it.
https://blog.thegrizzlylabs.com/2026/01/the-psychology-of-fortgetting.html #CognitiveScience

The Psychology of Forgetting

We all know the feeling: you swear you put your passport, birth certificate, or an important invoice in a safe place… and then you can’t find it. But losing ...

bartosz 🚲🌳🐍🦀4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/115923499147477767

A very interesting article on how LLMs might actually work. I am sceptic about the overextension of the work to cognitive sciences but the authors make a good point. I wonder what the actual cognitive scientists might say.

#llm #ai #science #cognitiveScience #cognition #arxiv #preprint #patternMatching