Unit 7

Cognition & Language

Articles / Podcasts

A Review of Optimizing Learning in College: Tips from Cognitive Psychology - The Effortful EducatorA review/summarization of a journal article that discusses how we learn and how students should study successfully.

Breaking News, Analysis, Politics, Blogs, News Photos, Video, Tech Reviews - TIME.com

The Optimism Bias

Some People Are Great At Recognizing Faces. Others...Not So MuchBeing able to recognize faces is a crucial part of life. But why are some of us so good or bad at it, and how skilled at it are we on average? The answers may surprise you.

Lost In Translation: The Power Of Language To Shape How We View The WorldLearning new languages can help us understand other cultures and countries. Do the languages we speak also shape our thoughts?

Radio Replay: Watch Your Mouth If you're bilingual or multilingual, you may have noticed that different languages make you stretch in different ways. In this month's Radio Replay, we ask whether the structure of the languages we speak can change the way we see the world. We'll also look at how languages evolve, and why we're sometimes resistant to those changes.

The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your BrainScience suggests we’re hardwired to delude ourselves. Can we do anything about it?

Radio Replay: Life, InterruptedWhat price do we pay for the constant interruptions we get from our phones and computers? Hidden Brain host Shankar Vedantam gets electrodes strapped to his head to test a high-tech solution.

Hidden Brain Podcast: Life , Interrupted (Deep Work/Processing)

The Risk Of Teen Depression And Suicide Is Linked To Smartphone Use, Study Says This week on The Call-In, a new study suggests a link between electronic device use and depression among teens. NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks with Jean Twenge, one of the authors of that study.

Copy and paste this link for an article on research-backed methods for studying: https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/periodicals/dunlosky.pdf

When Everything Clicks: The Power Of Judgment-Free LearningThere can be a lot of psychological noise involved in learning. And mental chit chat can make learning hard. One solution, silence it with a click.

Our Brains Instantly Make Two Copies of Each MemoryThese findings upend more than 50 years of accepted neuroscience

Cognition Videos

Neuroscientists have followed a thought as it moves through the brainNeuroscientists have just gotten an unprecedented look at how thoughts move through our brains.

David Myers: Make Things Memorable

Deep Processing Strategies

Chunking

Crash Course: Memory

Crash Course: Remembering & Forgetting

Loftus-How Reliable is your Memory?

Cognitive Bias Song

Endless Memory, Part 1

Endless Memory, Part 2

Brain Games: Sensory Mnemonics

Brain Games: Eyewitness Inaccuracy

Brain Games: Divided Attention and Multitasking

Finding Nemo: Anterograde Amnesia

Retrograde Amnesia Medical Explanation

Proactive & Retroactive Interference

Language Videos

Crash Course: Language

Khan Academy: Theories of Language Development

English rule about adjectives we all follow without even knowing

Language as a Window into Human Nature

Brain Games: Wernicke's Area

Noam Chomsky on Language Acquisition

Behaviorists and Second Language Acquisition

Brain Games: Prosody

Study Tools

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