Audiobooks are rising fast but do they change how we learn?

Studies show listening activates distinct cognitive pathways, yet understanding can remain comparable to reading when attention is sustained.

🔗 https://phys.org/news/2026-04-audiobooks.html

#CognitiveScience #Learning #Audiobooks #Brain #education

Does listening to audiobooks improve learning?

Whether it's documents in textbooks or fiction studied in literature classes, reading print remains a pillar in learning. But the audiobook craze opens up new possibilities.

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COGNITIVE SCIENCE: A NARRATIVE OF DISCONNECTIONS

Cognitive science explores how we think, remember, and learn. New ideas like embodied cognition focus on the body's role in thinking.

#CognitiveScience, #EmbodiedCognition, #Neuroscience, #HowWeThink, #MindResearch

https://newsletter.tf/cognitive-science-how-our-bodies-help-us-think/

Cognitive Science: New Ideas About How We Think

Cognitive science explores how we think, remember, and learn. New ideas like embodied cognition focus on the body's role in thinking.

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The field of cognitive science is changing. New ideas like embodied cognition, which says our bodies help us think, are becoming important.

#CognitiveScience, #EmbodiedCognition, #Neuroscience, #HowWeThink, #MindResearch
https://newsletter.tf/cognitive-science-how-our-bodies-help-us-think/

Cognitive Science: New Ideas About How We Think

Cognitive science explores how we think, remember, and learn. New ideas like embodied cognition focus on the body's role in thinking.

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Memory isn’t a static recording but a constant act of reconstruction. Every time we revisit a note or a book, we are weaving together the original content with our current environment and past self.

"“We construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them.”"

So how do we decide what’s worth preserving and what we must allow ourselves to forget? Explore the “differential allocation of attentional resources” in this look at the fallibility of memory.

Link: writingslowly.com/2026/05/1…

#CognitiveScience #Philosophy #Memory

Remembering what you read

One of the chief uses of note-making is to help you to …

Memory isn’t a static recording but a constant act of reconstruction. Every time we revisit a note or a book, we are weaving together the original content with our current environment and past self.

"“We construct and reconstruct our memories every time we attempt to recall them.”"

So how do we decide what’s worth preserving and what we must allow ourselves to forget? Explore the “differential allocation of attentional resources” in this look at the fallibility of memory.

Link: https://writingslowly.com/2026/05/15/remembering-what-you-read.html

#CognitiveScience #Philosophy #Memory

Remembering what you read

One of the chief uses of note-making is to help you to …

📰 Mathematics as the constitution of form: Science and Culture

Discover how mathematics, as a constitution of form, shapes science and culture. Understand the profound connections between structure, art, and human perception. Check out our analysis.

https://dobrepanstwo.org/szkatulka-kosztownosci/matematyka-jako-konstytucja-formy

#mathematicsastheconstitutionofform #mathematicalstructures #cognitivescience #empiricalaesthetics #primenumbers

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