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Cognitive Science

23 primes originate from Cognitive Science. 14 more draw from it as a secondary origin.

Primary members (23)

Primes whose canonical origin is Cognitive Science.

  • Accommodation — Systems modify internal structure or behavior in response to external pressures.
  • Additive Bias — When asked to improve a system, agents reliably reach first for adding a component and underweight removing one, so the search distribution over transformations is direction-asymmetric and long-lived systems accrete past their purpose-optimal complexity.
  • Analogy — Transfer structure between domains.
  • Attentional Capacity — Finite pool of selection bandwidth whose exceeded supply degrades processing through interference, slowing, or capture.
  • Bayesian Cue Integration — Multiple noisy cues to one quantity combine by inverse-variance weighting into a lower-variance estimate.
  • Belief Formation — Commitment-transition by which an agent comes to hold a proposition as true and act accordingly.
  • Conceptual Blending — Combine ideas into new space.
  • Counterfactual Proximity Weighting — An internal signal is graded not by the outcome alone but by its distance to a nearby counterfactual outcome of different value, so near misses carry near-reward signals.
  • Decision — Committing to one alternative from a set under uncertainty and trade-off, collapsing open deliberation into a chosen path and foreclosing the others.
  • Differential Decay — Two coupled signals decay at different rates, so the surviving component carries forward a meaning the original pair never intended — often with a sign flip.
  • Equivocation — A single token is used with two distinct referents at two points in a chain that presumes meaning-fixity, so an apparently sound inference silently fails.
  • False Consensus Effect — Agents overestimate how widely their own beliefs and behaviors are shared, projecting a self-anchored prior across a non-randomly sampled population.
  • Figure-Ground — Perceptual organization of a field into salient figure and receding ground.
  • Interleaving — Mixing topics during practice to improve discrimination and retention.
  • Invisible Affordance — A capability, right, or action-possibility genuinely exists in a system, but the surfaces a prospective user reliably samples carry no signal of its existence, so the user's effective option-set excludes it despite its being real and available.
  • Joint Attention — Two or more agents share an attentional target and each knows the other attends to it.
  • Joint vs. Separate Evaluation — The same option is ranked differently when evaluated alongside alternatives than when evaluated in isolation against an internal reference, because each evaluation mode makes a different subset of attributes evaluable and thus carries the verdict.
  • Knowledge-Action Gap — An agent holds accurate knowledge of the appropriate action, sincerely intends to take it, and systematically does not — because knowing and doing are separable load-bearing states and intervention on the knowing channel does not, by itself, change the doing channel.
  • Law of the Instrument — The tools an agent possesses systematically bias what it recognises as a problem, what category the problem is sorted into, and what intervention is generated — the world's joints get carved into shapes the tool can grip, and joints it cannot grip become invisible.
  • Pattern Completion (Filling the Incomplete) — Infer missing structure.
  • Pattern Recognition — Identify regularities.
  • Problem Space — Range of possibilities.
  • Signal Detection Theory — Every decision under noise factorizes into a sensitivity that fixes the achievable error trade-off and a freely-chosen criterion that distributes errors along it.

Also draws from Cognitive Science (14)

Primes whose canonical origin is elsewhere, but who list Cognitive Science among their alternate origin domains.