The 250 Millisecond Window: What Happens Between Seeing and Doing
Explore the neuroscience behind human reaction time, learn what affects your reflexes, and discover evidence-based strategies to improve your response speed.
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Cognitive Science Articles
Miller's Magic Number: Why You Can Only Remember 7 Things at Once
Discover how your working memory functions, explore the research on memory capacity, and learn techniques to expand your ability to remember sequences.
The Digit Span: How Long Can You Hold a Number in Mind?
Learn how your brain encodes numerical information, understand digit span as a cognitive measure, and discover techniques to dramatically improve your number recall.
Seen or New? The Psychology of Recognition
Explore the psychology of verbal memory, understand the difference between recognition and recall, and learn strategies to enhance your word retention abilities.
Point and Click: The Hidden Complexity of Aimed Movement
Understand how your brain coordinates vision and movement, explore the research on motor learning, and discover how to sharpen your hand-eye coordination.
Outsmarted by Ayumu: What a Chimpanzee Taught Us About Memory
Discover the famous Ayumu experiment, understand why chimps outperform humans at this task, and explore what this reveals about the evolution of memory.
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