Category learning is a fundamental cognitive process that enables humans and other species to organise complex sensory input into meaningful groups. This ability underpins decision‐making and adaptive ...

Working memory is a critical cognitive system that temporarily maintains and manipulates information for complex tasks such as reasoning, learning, and decision-making. It functions as an interface ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Processes That Support Learning." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures. Washington, DC: The ...

This post was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow is one of the great books written on cognition and decision making. In a clear and accessible fashion, it made popular ...

A name can matter a lot. When social science researchers wanted to make a distinction between how students approached different aspects of the learning process, they coined the somewhat awkward term ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive ...

Companies are investing billions in upskilling, but many training programs are designed for an “average” employee who doesn’t exist. This can be fixed.

Walk into almost any university in Pakistan and you will see students producing assignments, presentations and exam scripts that look impressively neat and complete. Yet beneath this appearance lies a ...

A new review shows that this process of thinking is not exclusive to humans. Artificial intelligence, too, is capable of self-correction and arriving at new conclusions through 'learning by thinking.' ...

Australian students risk losing cognitive abilities critical to their learning and development unless national action is urgently taken to guide and ...