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Cognition
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27 Windows on the Universe (05): The Internal Landscape
This is the fifth in a series about the human side of science, drawn from interviews with 27 cosmologists. Earlier…
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Of Three Minds
I was of three minds,Like a treeIn which there are three blackbirds.—Wallace Stevens, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird”…
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Honest Non-Signals: Why AI Fools Us Without Lying
I have a test I give AI systems: a modified Ebbinghaus illusion where one circle is deliberately larger than the…
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How do people think AI works? (Some surprising findings)
Those of us who work in and around artificial intelligence often exist in something of a bubble. We talk about…
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Beyond Learning Styles II: Your Students’ Minds Work Nothing Like Yours (and They Don’t Know it Either)
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post about cognitive diversity (and learning styles), essentially arguing that in the…
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Einstein’s Beams and Feynman’s Colors: What We Lost When We Debunked Learning Styles
“When I see equations, I see the letters in colors — I don’t know why. As I’m talking, I see…
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From Symbols to Statistics: The Parallel Histories of Machine and Human Learning
Over the past 12 years, we have been writing a regular column in TechTrends, broadly focused on “Rethinking Creativity and…
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GenAI Reasoning Models: Very smart & confident (but still drunk)
A year or so ago, I came up with this metaphor that working with a chatbot is like having “a…
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The GenAI and Expertise Paradox: Why It Makes Expert Work More Important But Harder
I’ve had many conversations recently with colleagues about what happens when we integrate GenAI into our daily work. What effects…
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The Attribution Problem: Why we can’t stop seeing ourselves in AI
Note: For over 20 years I have been taking photographs of everyday objects that appear to have faces, a phenomenon…
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Hardwired for Connection: Why We Fall for AI Companions (And What To Do About It)
There was a recent article in the NYTimes about AI chatbots serving as virtual companion. Titled, She Is in Love…
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Mind Games: When AI Learns to Read Us
I had recently written about NotebookLM’s podcast feature [“NotebookLM’s Viral Secret“] and how eerily human it sounds. My friend Sean…
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NotebookLM’s Viral Secret: It’s All in Our Heads
Google’s recent release of NotebookLM has stirred up quite a buzz, particularly its podcast feature. At first glance, it might…
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Turing’s Tricksters: How AI Hijacks Our Social Instincts
In a recent article in The Atlantic (Shh, ChatGPT. That’s a Secret), Lila Shroff delves into the surprising willingness of…
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Beavers, Brains & Chat Bots: Cognitive Illusions in the Age of AI
Imagine a world where tape recorders fool beavers, triangles tell stories, and AI convinces us it’s sentient. Welcome to reality—where…
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Metaphors, Minds, Technology & Learning
Note: The shared blogging experiment with Melissa Warr and Nicole Oster continues. This time we delve into metaphors of the…
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Media, Cognition & Society through History: A Mapping
If oral cultures prioritize memory and print cultures emphasize systematic organization, what types of knowledge will AI systems foster? Marie…
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Blast from the past: Technology, representation & cognition
I published my first academic article (a book chapter) in 1996 when I was a PhD student at the University…
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Tools “R” Us: When objects become you
Danah Henriksen shared an article with me recently “When objects become extensions of you.” It is an interesting piece arguing…
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The darker side of curiosity
Curiosity, the willingness to learn more, is often seen as a positive trait one that drives learning, and one can…
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Cognitive psychology of science: Old article
Science ambigram with 180-degree rotational symmetry This chapter, published back in 1998, focused on the cognitive science of science. I…
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Neuroscience, downtime and creativity: New article
In this article, in our ongoing series on Rethinking technology & creativity in the 21st century, we interview Dr. Jung. Dr. Jung is…
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Multitasking & the learner
One of the myths of the new digital generation is that they are natural multi-taskers. The evidence, however, indicates that…
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Synthesis: A creative cognitive tool (2 articles) Synthesis: A creative cognitive tool (2 articles)
Over the past couple of years my research team (the Deep-Play Research group) and I have been writing an on-going series of articles…
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Modeling & Play as cognitive tools: 2 new articles Modeling & Play as cognitive tools: 2 new articles
The next article in our series Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century is out. Sadly there is an error…
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Blast from the past: Theories and memory Blast from the past: Theories and memory
Ambigram for the word “Theory” by Punya Mishra My first real research study was one that I conducted back when…
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Embodied Thinking: New article Embodied Thinking: New article
Photo: Punya Mishra; Santiago, Chile, 2014 Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century is a series of articles we have…
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Abstracting as a trans-disciplinary habit of mind Abstracting as a trans-disciplinary habit of mind
The next article on our series on Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century has just been published. The…
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Vijay Iyer, polymathy and trans-disciplinary creativity Vijay Iyer, polymathy and trans-disciplinary creativity
Vijay Iyer, (http://vijay-iyer.com/) is an Indian-American jazz pianist and composer. He is a MacArthur Genius grant winner and is currently…
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Perceiving & Patterning as skills essential for creativity Perceiving & Patterning as skills essential for creativity
We have been writing a series of articles for Tech Trends titled Rethinking Technology & Creativity in the 21st Century. You can see the…