Under the Cortex

Under the Cortex

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How Our Brains Grasp Faces

From the earliest months of life, we rely on faces to help us navigate the world. They tell us who’s safe, who’s familiar, and whether they’re paying attention to us. But do our responses to faces develop gradually as our brains mature? Or are we born prewired to lock onto the hu ...  عرض المزيد

The Cost of Efficiency: Exploring Doubling-Back Aversion

Why do we avoid retracing our steps—even when it helps us reach our goals faster? In this episode of Under the Cortex, host Özge Gürcanlı Fischer-Baum speaks with Kristine Cho and Clayton Critcher from the University of California, Berkeley about their latest research on doubling ...  عرض المزيد

Time Warped: How Repetition Distorts Our Sense of Duration

Why do familiar experiences sometimes feel like they happened longer ago than they actually did? In this episode of Under the Cortex, host Özge Gürcanlı Fischer-Baum speaks with Brynn Sherman from the University of Pennsylvania about her recent study published in Psychological Sc ...  عرض المزيد

Two Maps in the Mind: How the Brain Stores What We Know About Others

How does your brain keep track of the people in your life—not just who they are, but where they are in relation to you and to each other? In this episode of Under the Cortex, Özge Gürcanlı Fischer-Baum talks with Robert Chavez from the University of Oregon about his new findings ...  عرض المزيد

Bridging Research and Editorial Vision: A Conversation with Arturo Hernandez

How do the roles of researcher and editor inform each other? What can this intersection tell us about the future of psychological science? In this episode of Under the Cortex, Arturo Hernandez, Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston and editor for Perspectives on Ps ...  عرض المزيد