5 stories tagged cognitive-psychology, newest first.
25 points by giuliomagnifico | 23 comments
UC Berkeley Research news article on a co-authored study finding that using AI for just 10 minutes reduces people's persistence on difficult tasks.
352 points by benocodes | 229 comments
arXiv paper examining tasks where chain-of-thought prompting reduces LLM performance, drawing on cases where deliberation hurts human performance.
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341 points by JustinSkycak | 124 comments
A PDF research paper hosted on ERIC about techniques for improving long-term retention of learned material without adding study time.
556 points by pepys | 174 comments
MIT Press Reader article explaining how actors memorize their lines and what this reveals about how human memory works.
400 points by jarmitage | 133 comments
Communications of the ACM research article by Brown, Hermans, and Margulieux on ten findings about learning that software developers should know.