AI & Academic Performance
Articles on how AI tools impact academic performance, including homework completion, exam outcomes, learning retention, and the cognitive trade-offs between assistance and independent skill development.
The Civility Spillover: How Our Blunt Dialogue With AI Frays Human Connections
An exploration of how the direct, command-driven language we use with artificial intelligence is spilling over into human-to-human interactions, eroding linguistic politeness, decreasing overall talk rates, and threatening the cooperative foundations of society.
Immersive Biofeedback: Real-Time Visual Feedback Turns Stress Management into a Visible Skill
Combining real-time physiological data with virtual reality transforms stress management from a guessing game into an intuitive, visual training tool.
Why 2,000 Calories Became the World's Most Persistent Food Meme
An exploration of how the FDA's 2,000-calorie recommendation became a dominant cultural meme through evolutionary mechanisms of replication, variation, and selection.
Myelin Deterioration Turns Sleep Into a Minefield — Epileptiform Spikes and Slowed REM Oscillations
When myelin sheaths decay, neural networks short-circuit in the dark—sending epileptiform spikes riding sleep spindles and dragging REM oscillations to a crawl. A new FENS study reveals why poor sleep isn’t just a symptom of MS or Alzheimer’s, but a silent driver of decline—and how overnight EEG could become our earliest warning radar.
70 Years of AI: How Psychology and Cognitive Science Built Artificial Intelligence
The 70th birthday of artificial intelligence marks not just a technological milestone, but also the birth of cognitive science and psychology's modern collaboration with computing—where terms like neural networks, learning, memory, and intelligence were borrowed directly from psychology to build machines that simulate human thought.
Food Noise: The Chatter About the Wrong Things
A comprehensive exploration of the emerging concept of 'food noise'—persistent, intrusive thoughts about food—including its origins with GLP-1 medications, cultural variations across countries, commercialization by telehealth and weight-loss industries, and the biopsychosocial factors that make food feel \"loud\" in modern environments.
The Neural Architecture of Phantom Vision: How Predictive Processing and Brain Plasticity Shape Charles Bonnet Hallucinations
Emerging neuroscience explains Charles Bonnet Syndrome—vivid visual hallucinations in people with vision loss—not as psychiatric episodes but as a normal brain response to sensory deprivation, where predictive coding and neural reorganization interact to generate persistent phantom images.
Stealing the Foundation: The Long-Term Cognitive Debt of Delegating Schoolwork to AI
A detailed analysis of the 'augmentation trap' in education, explaining how immediate AI-assisted homework boosts mask a 20% drop in independent exam performance and prevent students from building the domain knowledge required to audit AI outputs.
Beyond IQ: How Actively Open-Minded Thinking Boosts Cognitive Ability
Research shows that the strongest predictor of cognitive excellence isn't speed or raw intelligence, but a trainable behavioral habit: actively open-minded thinking.