The second day of CNS 2018 in Boston started with a stimulating poster session and ended with some dancing and celebrating! Cognitive neuroscientists gave presentations in 5 different symposia on topics ranging from human and machine cognition, to direct brain stimulation, to opportunities and challenges in the field over the […]
CNS 2018 Press Release March 25, 2018 – Boston – In the natural world, intelligence takes many forms. It could be a bat using echolocation to expertly navigate in the dark, or an octopus quickly adapting its behavior to survive in the deep ocean. Likewise, in the computer science world, […]
The 25th meeting of CNS is in full swing in Boston! Yesterday, participants debated with an expert panel on whether the greatest need in the field is “big theory” or “big data”, heard Michael Gazzaniga, the godfather of cognitive neuroscience take us on a tour of views of consciousness over […]
Q&A with Michael Yassa Alzheimer’s is a growing epidemic, with the disease and related dementia affecting some 45 million people worldwide. Although treatment has been elusive, discoveries that advance our understanding of the disease have been coming fast and furious over the last several years, due in no small part […]
Q&A with Morgan Barense In high school biology, students often learn about different parts of the brain, accompanied by a description like “the area of the brain responsible for memory” or “…for attention.” But in recent years, cognitive neuroscientists have found that such sharp boundaries in cognitive functions are really […]
Cognition can be the difference between life and death on deep-space missions. Imagine the catastrophes that could occur – whether on the International Space Station or in route to Mars – if a crew member has a lapse of attention on a spacewalk or a memory deficit while navigating due […]
Unwanted thoughts can haunt our daily lives – negative memories, worries, or simply off-task thinking. But most healthy adults can control such thoughts. For individuals suffering from neuropsychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), however, the ability to control such thoughts is greatly hampered. In a […]
I can see it all in my mind like a mini-movie: my family and I eating breakfast at the kitchen table, pouring cereal, drinking juice and coffee, and chatting. The body positioning, senses, and actions are all vividly recreated in my mind’s eye. We all do it to some extent […]
Guest Post by Sadie (Sarah) Witkowski, Northwestern University As one of five children, my mom has plenty of stories about her and her siblings’ misadventures. One of my favorites revolves around my “weird” Uncle Dorsey and his early scientific endeavors. When my mom was about 8 years old, her older brother […]
The other day, I reset my password for a social media site. When I went to login today, I inadvertently entered the old password. When that happened, I was using my automatic, “stimulus-response” memory, a rigid, habit-like memory. When I then remembered I had changed my password, I tapped into […]
March 29–April 1 | 2025
