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Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it | Science Advances

#aging #brain #cognition #decline | Cognitive skills do not decline with age for those who use math and reading throughout their life.

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Cognitive load

#architecture #code #cognition #complexity #reading | When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person can hold roughly four such chunks in working memory. Once the cognitive load reaches this threshold, it becomes much harder to understand things. Let's say we have been asked to make some fixes to a completely unfamiliar project. We were told that a really smart developer had contributed to it. Lots of cool architectures, fancy libraries and trendy technologies were used. In other words, the author had created a high cognitive load for us.

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The Magic of Bird Brains

#birds #cognition #corvids #crows #culture #paris | Crows are smart enough to pick up trash. Why won’t they?

1 year ago | View Shared by victor

What Makes Brain Fog So Unforgiving - The Atlantic

#brain_fog #cognition #covid #disability #memory #symptoms | <blockquote>Brain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.</blockquote>

3 years ago | View Shared by victor

Why books don’t work | Andy Matuschak

#books #cognition #education #learning #memory #reading

5 years ago | View Shared by victor

Designing for Cognitive Differences · An A List Apart Article

#accessibility #cognition #design #psychology #reference #tips | <blockquote>Brandon Gregory considers how to design accessibly for cognitive differences like anxiety disorders, inattention, and depression.</blockquote>

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Rules of memory 'beautifully' rewritten - BBC News

#brain #cognition #cognitive #memory #neurology | <blockquote>Everything you know about memory may be wrong.</blockquote>

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List of cognitive biases

#behavioral #bias #cognition #list #psychology

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