In this blog post I am going to briefly explain the Dual Coding theory and provide several practical tips on how it can be incorporated into delivery of online learning. I will also demonstrate a ...

As young people take on a messy dating landscape, they’ve created their own lexicon to match. Here’s like what phrases ‘bird theory’ and ‘monkey branching’ mean This year marked a decade since the ...

SINGAPORE – Many people who start at the tuition-free coding school at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) do not make it even halfway to the end. But Mr Brian Young, 36, and Mr ...

Congenital aphantasia is considered the inability to consciously generate visual imagery. Although there are early descriptions of this disorder going back to Aristotle, it was not formally described ...

While it is universally accepted that the brain makes predictions, there is little agreement about how this is accomplished and under which conditions. Accurate prediction requires neural circuits to ...

Recent studies have confirmed the role of dopamine firing in reward prediction error, even under perceptual uncertainty. However, little is known about dopamine behavior during the use of working ...

As you may have figured out from the focus of my ongoing blog, my book and my previous research, critical thinking (CT) is my specialty area of research. However, perhaps something that I don’t ...

Predictive coding theories of sensory brain function interpret the hierarchical construction of the cerebral cortex as a Bayesian, generative model capable of predicting the sensory data consistent ...