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A study in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience showed participants’ brains could automate tasks by offloading them from the prefrontal cortex to the temporal cortex.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Karen Konkoly, the study's lead author and a postdoctoral researcher in Paller's Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, said one of the biggest surprises was how strongly the cues influenced dreams even when participants were not lucid.
From Science Daily • Feb. 15, 2026
“What we’re talking about is a much older, evolutionary, more animalistic way of understanding the social world,” says Dr. Eliska Prochazkova, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University in the Netherlands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026
The term "SuperAger" was first introduced by Dr. M. Marsel Mesulam, founder of the Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease at Northwestern, in the late 1990s.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2025
Consequently, ever since the Cognitive Revolution Homo sapiens has been able to revise its behaviour rapidly in accordance with changing needs.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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Vocabulary from "There Will Never Be an Age of Artificial Intimacy," by Sherry Turkle
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