Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...

More than a billion people use Google Maps to help them navigate their world every month. If you own a smartphone, the odds are better than average you're one of those people. If you're using Google ...

Professor John Vervaeke has developed a brilliant metatheory of cognition (see here, here, and here). This is quite a feat. As I note in this post, “cognition” is one of the most complicated concepts ...

This post was co-authored with Professor John Vervaeke 1. Thinking, Fast and Slow is one of the great books written on cognition and decision making. In a clear and accessible fashion, it made popular ...

Susan Dieleman receives funding as the Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership at the University of Lethbridge. Over a billion people use Google Maps to help them navigate their world ...