1 June 2020

A two-way street: aligned progress in theories of cognition and neuroimaging

In the 30-year history of neuroimaging research, a reciprocal relationship between techniques – most prominently, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) – and cognitive theories has matured. These techniques test predictions on real-time neural brain activity.
1 June 2020

Human perception has a bandwidth problem

Human perception and attention are intrinsically linked cognitive processes. Perception is the process of stimuli recognition and interpretation through the five senses, while attention is the selection process of these perceptual systems (Broadbent, 1958). Mediator classifiers include psychological, cognitive and interaction effects as well as neurological impairments.
1 June 2020

Operations of cognition: understanding the Stroop effect

Almost a century ago, John Ridley Stroop, a pioneering American psychologist, identified an innate feature of human visual processing which provided breakthrough insight into how brains functions.