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.
Source criticism is the disciplined evaluation of where information comes from, how it was produced, what interests and constraints shaped it, and whether it is fit to support the claim being made. In digital environments, it increasingly requires leaving the source to investigate its provenance elsewhere.
Two people can feel the same light stroke differently. One welcomes it from a trusted friend; another experiences it as intrusive from a stranger.…
A researcher brushes a participant’s forearm slowly and asks whether the stroke was pleasant. The participant gives it a high score. What has been…
Kevin Ochsner’s work helped establish the social cognitive neuroscience of reappraisal, showing how changing meaning recruits cognitive-control systems and alters emotional responding while also exposing the limits of simple brain-region stories.
How prediction-error ideas explain some sensory and reward learning while retaining domain limits.
A nurse sees a patient’s oxygen reading, hears a change in breathing, and knows that the next few minutes may require a response. A number on a screen is…
Inner Technology sits at an intersection rather than inside one established discipline. This map shows where its questions touch cognitive science, education, human factors, affective science, contemplative research, capability theory, digital wellbeing, organizational learning and responsible AI without claiming ownership of any of them.
Why the insula is central to bodily-state processing, why it is not an isolated interoception center, and how neural evidence should be interpreted
The Metacognitive Awareness Inventory is a 52-item self-report instrument developed by Gregory Schraw and Rayne Sperling Dennison to assess adults’ reported knowledge of cognition and regulation of cognition. It is widely used, reasonably well studied, and frequently overinterpreted as though self-report awareness were the same thing as task-based metacognitive accuracy.
A critical guide to the benefits, limits and failure modes of offloading retrospective memory to external aids.