Lund University

LUCS : Lund University Cognitive Science

DEPT. OF PHILOSOPHY | THE FACULTIES OF HUMANITIES AND THEOLOGY | LUND UNIVERSITY

  • LUCS
  • About
  • People
  • Education
  • Research Groups
    • Audio Description and Accessibility
    • Choice Blindness Lab
    • The Cognitive Zoology Group
    • The Educational Technology Group
    • Decision Making
    • LUCS Robotics Group
  • Seminars
  • Publications
    • Lund University Cognitive Studies
    • LUCS Minor
    • LUCS in LUP (All publications)

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 …

► Continue Reading

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, …

► Continue Reading

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. …

► Continue Reading

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 …

► Continue Reading

“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 …

► Continue Reading

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 …

► Continue Reading

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 …

► Continue Reading

News at LUCS

Project funding from the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation

  • Posted on: 01.24.17
  • Tags: Educational Technology, LUCS

Agneta Gulz and Magnus Haake have – in collaboration with colleagues at Stanford University – received...

Expo: Master student projects in VR, AR, Learning Technologies, and Robotics

  • Posted on: 01.20.17
  • Tags: Educational Technology, In the news, LUCS, Robotics

A two-day expo ‘Innovative Interaction’ was held January 18 & 19 at LUX. Master students from...

Petter Johansson on Choice Blindness at TEDx

  • Posted on: 12.12.16
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, LUCS

Choice blindness, you know less about yourself than you think you do @ Uppsala University.

Celebrity duo Filip and Fredrik takes the choice blindness lab’s magic moral survey

  • Posted on: 11.8.16
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, In the news, LUCS

In SVT’s show ‘Social Monsters’, Filip and Fredrik takes the choice blindness lab’s magic moral survey....

Om korpforskning på SVT “Mitt i naturen”

  • Posted on: 11.4.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, In the news, LUCS

I säsongsstarten av ”Mitt i Naturen” deltar Mathias och Helena Osvath från gruppen kognitiv zoologi och...

New edited book: Audio Description – Research and Practices

  • Posted on: 10.14.16
  • Tags: Language & vision, LUCS, Mental imagery

Associate professor Jana Holsanova is one of the editors of the book Syntolkning – forskning och...

Kunskapskanalen: Smartare lek- och lärspel för barn

  • Posted on: 10.10.16
  • Tags: Educational Technology, LUCS

Kunskapskanalen: Lyssna, förstå, lära Den 10 och den 11 oktober sänds CCL:s symposium “Lyssna förstå &...

Philip Pärnamets receiving the Glushko Dissertation Prize from Linda Smith and Robert Glushko at CogSci 2016.

Philip Pärnamets recipient of Glushko Dissertation Prize.

  • Posted on: 10.10.16
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, Decision making, LUCS

The 2016 recipients of the Robert J. Glushko Prizes for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertations/theses in Cognitive Science...

Orangutans can predict taste of juice mixes

  • Posted on: 08.15.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, In the news, LUCS, Primate research

A new study from LUCS shows that humans might not be the only one endowed with...

A novel tool-use mode in animals: New Caledonian crows insert tools to transport objects

  • Posted on: 07.31.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, In the news, LUCS

New research from members at LUCS! Paper New Scientist

Crow birds rival great apes in motor self-regulation

  • Posted on: 05.3.16
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, In the news, LUCS

New publication in Royal Society Open Science: “Ravens, New Caledonian crows and jackdaws parallel great apes...

Kursbetygssystemet är lärfientligt i sig självt

  • Posted on: 04.17.16
  • Tags: Educational Technology, In the news, LUCS

Agneta Gulz (Educational Technology Group) responds to a debate in Sydsvenskan (SDS) about the Swedish course...

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 ]

Pages ... 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Lunds universitet Box 117, 221 00 Lund. Telefon: 046-222 00 00