Research-led explanations of human capacity, learning and technological change. Start with the foundations, then follow the evidence and related ideas as the Learning Hub grows.
A research profile of Sahib Khalsa’s work on heart-brain, lung-brain and gut-brain interoception, anxiety, experimental medicine and the measurement problem in clinical translation
Salience is the property of standing out enough to receive priority, but the word names several different phenomena across perception, motivation and neuroscience. A rigorous account must distinguish visual salience, behavioral relevance, learned value and the brain’s so-called salience network rather than treating them as one thing.
A kettle whistles while a person is reading. The sound interrupts the page, but its importance depends on context: it might signal boiling water, an…
Sander van der Linden’s research programme examines misinformation, social influence and psychological inoculation, including games and short videos designed to help people recognize manipulation techniques. The work has produced influential scalable interventions, while current reviews also sharpen questions about mechanism, durability and ecological transfer.
A research profile of Sarah Garfinkel’s work on heart-brain interactions, interoceptive dimensions, emotion and clinical translation, with clear limits on what cardiac tasks can establish
What screen time counts, why duration aggregates unlike activities and how to interpret observational wellbeing findings.
What secure attachment means in infant and adult research, how it is measured and why it is not a permanent personal label.
A toddler moves away to investigate an unfamiliar room, checks where a caregiver is, returns after becoming unsure, then resumes play. Attachment theory…
Selection history describes how prior choices, rewards, suppressions and statistical regularities continue to bias what receives attention later. It is the evidence-based correction to the idea that attention is governed only by present goals and present stimulus salience.
Selective attention is the capacity to privilege some information while other information remains present. It is not perfect filtering, and it is not simply willpower. It is the negotiated allocation of limited processing in a world that always offers more than can be taken in at once.