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November 17, 2025
Since the early 1990s, marked most famously by Seiji Ogawa’s 1990 discovery of the BOLD (blood...
November 16, 2025
Eric Kandel’s pioneering work from the 1960s through the 1990s revealed, with unprecedented...
November 15, 2025
In the 1960s and 1970s, Roger Sperry and his student Michael Gazzaniga conducted landmark split...
November 14, 2025
Andy Clark’s seminal work Being There: Putting Brain, Body, and World Together Again (MIT Press,...
November 13, 2025
In his seminal 1999 article Perceptual Symbol Systems, Lawrence W. Barsalou proposed a compelling...
November 12, 2025
In their groundbreaking book Metaphors We Live By (1980), linguists George Lakoff and philosopher...
November 11, 2025
Backpropagation learning, first formally popularized in the 1980s by David E. Rumelhart, Geoffrey...
November 10, 2025
In 1986, David Rumelhart and James McClelland introduced Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP), a...
November 9, 2025
Creativity, as a psychological construct, represents the human capacity to generate ideas,...
November 8, 2025
In The Language Instinct (1994), Steven Pinker presents a powerful and optimistic vision of human...
November 7, 2025
In the late 1950s, Noam Chomsky revolutionised our understanding of language with his theory of...
November 6, 2025
In the 1940s, Benjamin Whorf and Edward Sapir introduced a profoundly transformative idea known...
November 5, 2025
In 1972, Allen Newell and Herbert A. Simon introduced the General Problem Solver (GPS). This was...
November 4, 2025
The psychology of problem solving and decision making is a cornerstone of cognitive psychology,...
November 3, 2025
Parallel to schema theory, the field of knowledge representation, pioneered by AI researchers...
November 2, 2025
Roger Schank and Robert Abelson’s groundbreaking work in 1977 expanded schema theory by...
November 1, 2025
Schema theory was first introduced by British psychologist Frederic C. Bartlett in 1932. This was...
October 31, 2025
The spacing effect is one of the most powerful discoveries in the science of learning. First...
October 30, 2025
In 1974, psychologists Alan Baddeley and Graham Hitch revolutionised our understanding of short...
October 29, 2025
Elizabeth Loftus has made groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of reconstructive...
