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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

Disputation: Rasmus Bååth

  • Posted on: 10.10.15
  • Tags: Cognition, LUCS

Congratulations, October 9th (2015) Rasmus Bååth defended his PhD-thesis “An Investigation into the Perception and Production...

Interview with Björn Sjödén (ETG: Educationa Technology Group) in Skolvärlden

  • Posted on: 09.28.15
  • Tags: Educational Technology, In the news, LUCS

Björn Sjödén (ETG: Educational Technology Group) was interviewed in Skolvärlden (2015-09-28), a Swedish magazine about school...

Choice Blindness featured on Swedish Radio

  • Posted on: 09.9.15
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, LUCS

Thomas Strandberg from the Choice Blindness Lab is interviewed by Swedish Radio [P1 Kropp & Själ]...

Master’s course project published: II

  • Posted on: 09.8.15
  • Tags: Cognition, LUCS

Master’s course project presented at the fourth edition of Gesture and Speech in Interaction (GESPIN4), September...

Master’s course project published: I

  • Posted on: 09.8.15
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, Educational Technology, LUCS

Master’s course project presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015), August...

ETG at Almedalen

  • Posted on: 07.17.15
  • Tags: Educational Technology, LUCS

On July 2, LUCS-researchers (ETG: Educational Technology Group) within the CCL Linneaus program (Cognition, Communication &...

LUCS research presented in the Hechinger Report (USA)

  • Posted on: 07.17.15
  • Tags: Educational Technology, In the news, LUCS

LUCS (ETG: Educational Technology Group) research presented in the article “Pay Attention, Robot – Having students...

Advocating digitalized national tests

  • Posted on: 07.17.15
  • Tags: Educational Technology, LUCS

6th of May 2015, Stockholm: Magnus Haake held a presentation about digitalization of the national tests...

LUCS research featured on TV and radio

  • Posted on: 03.18.15
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, In the news, LUCS

Recent paper by LUCS researchers showing that moral choices can be influenced by measuring eye-movements was...

Biasing moral decisions by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze

Biasing moral decisions by exploiting the dynamics of eye gaze

  • Posted on: 03.16.15
  • Tags: Choice Blindness, In the news, LUCS

Philip Pärnamets and collaborators at Lund University, University College London (UCL), and University of California, Merced...

Fågelhjärnan och tänkandets evolution

  • Posted on: 03.13.15
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Corvid research, LUCS

UR Samtiden - Hjärndagen 2014: "Fågelhjärnan och tänkandets evolution" med Mathias Osvath från LUCS

Two open PHD-positions at LUCS

  • Posted on: 02.2.15
  • Tags: Animal cognition, Choice Blindness, Decision making, Educational Technology, LUCS, Robotics

There are now two open PHD-positions avaiable at Lund University Cognitive Science. Last day to send...

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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