Sublime

A germane finding in cognitive psychology for gaining that control is to make visible the things you need regularly, and hide things that you don’t.

“temporal locality”:

acid, is a neurotransmitter that plays an important role in the prefrontal inhibition of subcortical firing, and she had imagined it as

Einige Forscher (etwa der britische Hirnphysiologe Sir John Eccles oder der Mathematiker und Physiker Roger Penrose) haben darum versucht,

only a brain advanced enough to engage in complex thought and self-reflection is susceptible to the fuzzy mystification that obscures from view how our minds really work.

work. Here, we offer eleven clues drawn from the cognitive sciences—psychology, linguistics, and philosophy—that

The power of retrieval as a learning tool is known among psychologists as the testing effect.

Professor Sheena Iyengar from the Columbia Business School is a psycho-economist who specializes in decision making. Her famous “jam study” was done using specialty jams in a grocery store.

Exploring Nuances