Social media are digitalizing massive amounts of users' cognitions in terms of timelines and
emotional content. Such Big Data opens unprecedented opportunities for investigating …

Despite major advances in measuring human brain activity during and after educational
experiences, it is unclear how learners internalize new content, especially in real-life and …

Throughout life, we might seek a calling, companions, skills, entertainment, truth, self-
knowledge, beauty, and edification. The practice of curiosity can be viewed as an extended …

Cognitive scientists have a long-standing interest in quantifying the structure of semantic
memory. Here, we investigate whether a commonly used paradigm to study the structure of …

Math anxiety is a clinical pathology impairing cognitive processing in math-related contexts.
Originally thought to affect only inexperienced, low-achieving students, recent investigations …

In this paper we hypothesize that education, especially at the scale of curriculum, should be
treated as a complex system composed of different ideas and concepts which are inherently …

The Ising model has become a popular psychometric model for analyzing item response
data. The statistical inference of the Ising model is typically carried out via a pseudo …

Over the past 10 years, every learner's ability to achieve the highest level of learning
success has become quite an important topic. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) sets …

Examining how informal knowledge systems change after formal instruction is imperative to
understanding learning processes and conceptual development and to implementing …

Scientific creativity involves creating novel links between distant scientific and nonscientific
concepts. Such creative linking can be captured with the novel word–sentence–construction …