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Most research on leisure reading and theory of mind (the understanding of our own and others’ mental states) has been conducted with adults, whereas research on theory of mind and reading comprehension has been conducted with children.

Throughout our lives, we learn that pressing a button often produces a sound, yet almost none of us has ever produced a sound through an eye movement. Does this shape how we perceive it?

How do people build new ideas from existing knowledge? By tracking Wikipedia searches, we found that novel ideas emerged when people balanced exploration with exploitation—alternating between distant topics and deep dives into related information.

We disagree about abortion, guns, immigration. But does disagreement have to mean contempt? In this series of studies, we asked whether seeing someone as morally reasonable is a way out.

Can we perceive another person’s finger as part of our body? ☝️This new paper shows that the sixth finger illusion can blur the boundary between the self & the other.

What’s the difference between an understandable word we’ve never heard before, like “tributer”, and one we’ve heard countless times, like “admirer”? How does the brain process familiar vs. new words, and what about a new word shapes its processing?

"Prior knowledge biases episodic memory by filling in the gaps in imprecise memories: Simulating aging effects in younger adults" New paper from @michelleramey.bsky.social Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We often interpret ambiguous feedback in ways that confirm what we already believe. A laugh can feel supportive or mocking. A neutral email can feel encouraging or disappointing. A new paper studies how this happens during reward learning.

New paper in Cognition! Does body function constrain what we can embody? Using VR, we gave children & adults arms that reached further or less far than their own. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

How do we maintain visual information in short-term memory? One influential proposal is that such storage relies on the same sensory representations that support perception itself.