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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

Choice Blindness in Nature News

  • Posted on: 04.10.13
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, In the news, LUCS

Read the news article about our latest choice blindness finding in Nature News.

How the Polls Can Be Both Spot On and Dead Wrong: Using Choice Blindness to Shift Political Attitudes and Voter Intentions

  • Posted on: 04.10.13
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, Decision making, In the news, LUCS

How the Polls Can Be Both Spot On and Dead Wrong: Using Choice Blindness to Shift...

LUCS featured in latest AXESS magizine

  • Posted on: 04.1.13
  • Tags: In the news, LUCS

Lund University Cognitive Science was featured in the latest issue of the Swedish Axess magazine with...

International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics 2001-2010

  • Posted on: 03.23.13
  • Tags: LUCS, Robotics

Proceedings of the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (2001- 2010) are available online. http://www.lucs.lu.se/epirob/

Agneta Gulz on learning in the 21st century

  • Posted on: 03.21.13
  • Tags: Educational Technology, In the news, LUCS

Agneta Gulz argues in an article in Swedish magazine Axess that the Swedish school system relies...

LUCS courses featured in Lund University Magazine and Sydsvenskan

  • Posted on: 03.5.13
  • Tags: Educational Technology, In the news, LUCS, Robotics

LUM – Lund University Presents….  two unique master level courses provided by LUCS together with the...

Korpgluggen – New LUCS blog

  • Posted on: 02.11.13
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, LUCS

Follow corvid research at LUCS, as it happens, when it happens.

Doctoral studentship in cognitive science available

  • Posted on: 02.5.13
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Choice Blindness, Decision making, Educational Technology, Language & vision, LUCS, Mental imagery, Robotics

Apply now for a PhD student position at LUCS. Deadline 1 March 2013

Doctoral studentship in cognitive zoology

  • Posted on: 02.5.13
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, LUCS, Primate research

Apply now for a PhD student position at LUCS. Deadline 1 March 2013.

New book: Applications of Self-Organizing Maps edited by Magnus Johnsson

  • Posted on: 12.20.12
  • Tags: LUCS, Robotics

Applications of Self-Organizing Maps Edited by Magnus Johnsson The self-organizing map first described by the Finnish...

Projektfilmer FoU kurser

  • Posted on: 12.14.12
  • Tags: Educational Technology, LUCS, Robotics

Denna uppsättning filmer ger en inblick i de 14 olika FoU-projekt som genomförts av team av masterstudenter...

Round-table discussion on learning

  • Posted on: 11.26.12
  • Tags: Educational Technology, LUCS

Agneta Gulz participated on 23 Nov. in a round-table discussion, arranged by TÄNKOM and UR (Swedish...

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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