#cognition

🐘🔍 Groundbreaking #research #study shows #elephants don’t just trumpet—they call each other by name! These majestic creatures have complex social lives and advanced #cognition. Help them to survive when you #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife 🐾🌿

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 📱🧠 An eight-year Finnish #study followed 260 #children to see how physical activity and #screentime related to later cognitive processing. More screen time correlated with better #teen cognitive performance, tied to the type of screen use rather than duration. Physical activity benefits also differed by gender, with light activity helping working #memory in #girls. 👉 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260815064803.htm #development #cognition #kids #science #research #education #parenting #brain #health #adolescence #finland #pediatrics

"... participants typically did not enjoy spending 6 to 15 minutes in a room by themselves with nothing to do but think... many preferred to administer electric shocks to themselves instead of being left alone with their thoughts." Link: https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.1250830 #Cognition #Boredom #Psychology

How the Vagus Nerve Promotes Healthy Cognition via Acetylcholine Signaling https://hackaday.com/2026/07/28/how-the-vagus-nerve-promotes-healthy-cognition-via-acetylcholine-signaling/ #Science #Cognition #Cognitivedecline

How mental exhaustion changes the choices you make https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-mental-exhaustion-changes-the-choices-you-make/ #Psychology #Cognition #DecisionMaking

I'm fairly sure most folks I interact with would agree with the statement "LLMs cannot think." pretty uncontroversially. Here's a question for you, though: how do we feel about this statement? "Brains cannot think." (Comments and shares encouraged.) #poll #llm #llms #ai #brains #intelligence #cognition #philosophy #goku

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🐵🔺 Researchers at #CarnegieMellon tested geometric shape matching in #monkeys, #children, and #adults with little formal schooling. Both monkeys and preschoolers relied on intuitive reasoning, while educated adults used symbolic tools. The results suggest geometric intuition is shared across #primates and refined through #learning. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/monkeys-have-geometric-skills-on-par-with-human-preschoolers-study-suggests #primates #geometry #cognition #science #math #education #animals #intelligence #psychology

Monkeys Understand Shapes in Almost the Same Way as Humans https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/science/monkeys-cognition-shapes-geometry.html #Science #AnimalBehavior #Cognition

How working memory could give rise to consciousness https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-working-memory-could-give-rise-to-consciousness/ #Science #Neuroscience #Cognition

Cognitive test scores of over 1.2 million Swedish people (mostly men) recorded during military enlistment were combined with tax records on charitable giving, voting records, and vehicle registrations. Those with the highest cognitive scores were more likely to contribute to charities, to vote, and to own an eco-friendly car. Summary: https://www.psypost.org/intelligence-predicts-prosocial-behaviors-like-voting-and-charitable-giving-in-m/ Original paper: https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/135/668/1141/7914156?login=false #Science #Cognition #Intelligence #Prosociality

The Shape of the System - Engineering for Bounded Cognition https://shapeofthesystem.com/posts/2026/02/03/bounded-cognition #HackerNews #Tech #Cognition

How individual consciousness works – and makes us unique https://theconversation.com/how-individual-consciousness-works-and-makes-us-unique-281512 #cognition #neuroscience #science #STEM