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When critical thinking isn't enough: to beat information overload, we need to learn ‘critical ignoring'

February 07, 2023 12:59 pm

To regain control, we need cognitive strategies that help us reclaim at least some autonomy and shield us from the excesses, traps and information disorders of today's attention economy

Flagging interesting research: In collective intelligence of ‘Brainets’, germ of an ‘organic computer’

July 13, 2015 3:03 am

Neural privacy is important to humans, and brain-to-brain interfaces may not be sensible or practical, scientists have cautioned.

Chimps can 'think about thinking': study

April 04, 2013 3:04 pm

Demonstration of meta cognition in nonhuman primates has important implications.

Reasons for Irrationality

January 28, 2012 3:21 am

Daniel Kahneman expertly chips away at our delusions about our rationality

Brain scanning shows stress disrupts thinking in men

January 28, 2009 3:29 pm

Scanning the brains of 20 male medical students preparing for their board exams,a research team has found that stress disrupts human thinking.

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