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- Your thoughts, if you think them over and over, and assign truth to them, become beliefs. Beliefs create a cognitive lens through which you interpret the events of your world and this lens serves as a selective filter through which you sift the environment for evidence that matches up with what you believe to be true.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/living-forward/202009/how-your-thinking-creates-your-reality
Jan 1, 2014 · The latest research provides a more pragmatic perspective on how thought and emotion just below the surface of our awareness shape the way we relate to a boss, parent, spouse or child.
- How Language Shapes Thought
10 min read. How Language Shapes Thought. The languages we...
- How Language Shapes Thought
Sep 27, 2020 · Your thoughts, if you think them over and over, and assign truth to them, become beliefs. Beliefs create a cognitive lens through which you interpret the events of your world and this lens...
- Where The Conflict Between Perception and Reality Lies in The Brain
- The Stories Our Brain Tells Are Influenced by Life Experience
- Neuroscience Is Deeply Humbling
My colleague Sigal Samuel recently explored the neuroscience of meditation(link is external). During her reporting, she found good evidence that a regular meditation practice is associated with increased compassion. That evidence, she writes, “feel[s] like a challenge, even a dare. If it takes such a small amount of time and effort to get better at...
The brain tells us a story about the motion of objects. But that’s not the only story it tells. It also tells us stories about more complicated aspects of our visual world, like color. For some meta-insight, look at the illusion below from Japanese psychologist and artist Akiyoshi Kitaoka. You can observe your own brain, in real time, change its gu...
I don’t want people to read this and think we can’t believe our eyes, or we can’t incorporate evidence into our thinking. We can seek out verified sources of information. We can turn to expertise and also earnestly question it. (Don’t let people gaslight you, either — another phenomenon that preys on the brain’s tendency to generate illusory though...
Jul 15, 2019 · The process of combining prior knowledge with uncertain evidence is known as Bayesian integration and is believed to widely impact our perceptions, thoughts, and actions. Now, MIT neuroscientists have discovered distinctive brain signals that encode these prior beliefs.
Sep 22, 2024 · Our perceptions, shaped by a myriad of factors from our personal experiences to our cultural background, act as the lens through which we view the world. This lens, in turn, colors our thoughts, emotions, and ultimately, our behaviors.
Nov 3, 2021 · New findings from studies in both people and animals are revealing clues about how sensory information and cognitive processes interact in the brain to produce our perception of the world.
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Feb 1, 2011 · 10 min read. How Language Shapes Thought. The languages we speak affect our perceptions of the world. By Lera Boroditsky. February 2011 Issue. The Sciences. I am standing next to a...
