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    • Audio Description and Accessibility
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Beslutsblindhet ett av nyorden 2018 // Choice blindness one of the new Swedish words 2018

Under ett år som till mångt och mycket dominerats av Riksdagsvalet figurerade Choice Blindness-labbets forskning i diverse populärvetenskapliga sammanhang. Detta ledde till att beslutsblindhet tog sig in i det allmänna rummet och blev därmed utsett till ett av årets 33 …

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Science Publication: Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking

Peter Gärdenfors together with Jacob Bellmund, Edvard Moser, and Christian Doeller are published in Science with the article “Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking”. A framework for cognitive spaces: Ever since Tolman’s proposal of cognitive maps in the 1940s, …

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The Primate Research Group wins the 2018 Ig Noble Prize in Anthropology

Tomas Persson, Gabriela-Alina Sauciuc, and Elainie Madsen of the Primate Research Group at LUCS were awarded the Ig Noble Prize in Anthroplology for collecting evidence that chimpanzees imitate humans about as often, and about as well, as humans imitate chimpanzees. …

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SciMag -- short from Thomas Strandberg on Vimeo.

Choice Blindness in Science of Magic documentary

The Choice Blindness Lab is featured in the brand new CBC documentary The Science of Magic. In this doc, the filmmakers show not only how science has inspired magicians, but also how magicians inspire science, and in particular the exploration …

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“Psychological trick turns your yes into a no” – Pop science magazine visited the Choice Blindness Lab

Due to the upcoming Swedish election later on this fall, the pop science magazine Forskning & Framsteg visited the Choice Blindness Lab a crisp winter day to witness one of the ongoing political opinion experiments. The journalist got a glimpse …

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Petter Johansson featured at TED.com

Petter Johanssons TEDx talk “Do you really know why you do what you do?” was featured at TED.com Over 800,000 views (by Sunday, April 6, 2018). Experimental psychologist Petter Johansson researches choice blindness — a phenomenon where we convince ourselves …

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Beslutsblindhet på UR Samtiden – Hjärndagen 2017 (Video)

Petter Johansson, forskare inom kognitionsvetenskap på Lunds universitet, berättar om fenomenet beslutsblindhet på UR Samtiden – Hjärndagen 2017. Att vi kan förklara och förstå våra val är en central del av vår självbild. Men i vilken utsträckning vet vi varför …

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News at LUCS

New PhD Position in Cognitive Science

  • Posted on: 11.5.13
  • Tags: LUCS, Robotics

Fully funded four year PhD position at the Department of Philosophy, Lund University, Cognitive Science unit....

Contagious yawning research explained by The New York Times

  • Posted on: 11.5.13
  • Tags: Animal cognition, In the news, LUCS

Contagious yawning research conducted by Elainie Madsen, Tomas Persson and colleagues explained beautifully by the New...

Look here, new mental imagery publication in Psychological Science

  • Posted on: 10.29.13
  • Tags: LUCS, Mental imagery

Research on episodic memory has established that spontaneous eye movements occur to spaces associated with retrieved...

Choice Blindness and Preference Change: You Will Like This Paper Better If You (Believe You) Chose to Read It! Journal of Behavioral Decision Making

  • Posted on: 10.23.13
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, LUCS

Choice blindness is the finding that participants both often fail to notice mismatches between their decisions...

New publications in great ape research

  • Posted on: 10.16.13
  • Tags: Animal cognition, LUCS, Primate research

Papers on planning and yawn contagion in great apes recently published. Both are open access.

Jana Holsanova at the Göteborg Book Fair

  • Posted on: 10.4.13
  • Tags: Eyetracking, In the news, LUCS

A video of Jana Holsanova’s lecture at the annual Gothenburg Book Fair Sept. 26-29  (in Swedish)....

Tracking the mind’s eye

  • Posted on: 10.1.13
  • Tags: LUCS, Mental imagery

On September 26th Roger Johansson successfully defended his doctoral thesis "Tracking the mind's eye: Eye movements...

New Doctoral Student Position at Lund University Cognitive Science

  • Posted on: 09.24.13
  • Tags: Cognition, Educational Technology, LUCS

The position is placed within the Linnaeus project “Cognition, Communication and Learning” (http://ccl.ht.lu.se/) and specializes in...

Lund University Cognitive Science 25th aniversary on the 24th & 25th of September.

  • Posted on: 09.5.13
  • Tags: LUCS

Lund University Cognitive Science (LUCS) celebrates its 25th anniversary this September with two days of lectures,...

Peter Gärdenfors featured in “Forska för livet”.

  • Posted on: 06.24.13
  • Tags: Cognition, In the news, LUCS

Professor Peter Gärdenfors was recently featured in "Forska för livet" (Reserach for Life) a movie sponsored...

LUCS research featured in the news.

  • Posted on: 05.30.13
  • Tags: Educational Technology, In the news, LUCS

Research within the project – "Exploring and supporting metacognitive capabilities in 3-5 year olds" featured in...

Children Teaching Digital Tutees and the Digital Classroom

  • Posted on: 04.24.13
  • Tags: Educational Technology, Eyetracking, In the news, LUCS

Agneta Gulz and Jana Holsanova from Lund University Cognitive Science were interviewed in the magazine "Research...

Research Groups

► Audio Description and Accessibility
► Choice Blindness Lab
► Cognitive Zoology Group 
► Educational Technology Group 
► Decision Making 
► LUCS Robotics Group 

10 Latest Publications

► Anikin, A. & Johansson, N. (2018). Implicit associations between individual properties of color and sound. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-14.
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-018-0888-z
[ Open Access ]

► Bellmund, J., Gärdenfors, P., Moser, E., & Doeller, C. (2018). Navigating cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking. Science, 362(6415).
DOI: 10.1126/science.aat6766
[ URL: Article ]

► Trond A. Tjøstheim, T., & Balkenius, C. (2018). Cumulative inhibition in neural networks. Cognitive Processing, 1-16. Early online: 3 Nov 2018.
DOI: 10.1007/s10339-018-0888-z
[ Open Access ]

► Bobrowicz, K., & Osvath, M. (2018). Cats parallel great apes and corvids in motor self-regulation – not brain but material size matters. Frontier in Psychology, 9:1995
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01995
[ Open Access ]

► Lambert, M., & Osvath, M. (2018). Comparing chimpanzees' preparatory responses to known and unknown future outcomes. Biology Letters, 14: 20180499. Early online: 26 Sept 2018.
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2018.0499
[ URL: Article ]

► Tärning, B. (2018). Review of feedback in digital applications – does the feedback they provide support learning? Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 17, 247-283.
DOI: 10.28945/4104
[ URL: Article (Free Access) ]

► Gärdenfors, P., Jost, J., & Warglien, M. (2018). From actions to events: Three constraints on event mappings. Frontiers in Psychology, 9:1391.
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01391
[ URL: Article ]

► Strandberg, T., Sivén, D., Hall, L., Johansson, P., & Pärnamets, P. (2018). False beliefs and confabulation can lead to lasting changes in political attitudes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(9), 1382-1399.
DOI: 10.1037/xge0000489
[ URL: Article ]

► Anikin, A. (2018). Soundgen: An open-source tool for synthesizing nonverbal vocalizations. Behavior Research Methods, 1-15.
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-018-1095-7
[ Open Access ]

► Silvervarg, A., Haake, M., & Gulz, A. (2018). Perseverance is crucial for learning. “OK! But can I take a break?” In: C. Penstein Rosé et al. (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2018). LNCS, vol 10947 (pp. 532-544). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93843-1_39
[ URL: Article ]

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