The human brain stores unresolved problems in a rapid-access neural network to reduce predictive uncertainty

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Individuals with schizophrenic biological relatives exhibit enhanced lateral thinking and creative cognition

The evoked potential lag time between acoustic stimulus contact and auditory cortex processing is approximately 350 milliseconds

Acoustic threat signals travel from the ear to the human amygdala within 11 to 12 milliseconds

During high novelty, hippocampal sharp-wave ripples scan memories and backtrack to the earliest, highest-weighted Bayesian priors

The ability to enter trance mediumship states and hear external voices is a trainable cognitive skill

In cognitive science, an affordance is defined as an actionable property or opportunity for action provided by an object

Conscious cognitive processing of an auditory stimulus occurs approximately one second after initial physical sound detection

Vision researcher J.J. Gibson formulated the theory of affordances in the 1970s

Mental rehearsal requires visualizing the step-by-step execution of daily actionable tasks from an internal first-person perspective rather than focusing solely on the end goal

Visualizing the completion of upcoming daily tasks generates emotional states that counteract the human inclination toward procrastination

The human brain possesses a default mode network that automatically ruminates on past unpleasant experiences

Hal Elrod printed an image of the Atlantic City Marathon finish line to mentally rehearse crossing the ribbon from an internal first-person bodily perspective

The default mode network of the brain is active when an individual is ruminating or not engaged in an active task

Affirming passive statements that contradict personal reality, such as repeating wealth affirmations while broke, generates internal cognitive dissonance

The dorsolateral prefrontal cortex mediates executive function, strategic planning, and the cognitive reframing of difficult experiences

Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies conducted by Dr. David Ludwig demonstrate that sugar consumption activates the same neurological addiction pathways as heroin

Psychologist Daniel Kahneman demonstrated that people are more likely to take action to avoid a loss than to achieve an equivalent gain

A pre-mortem is an exercise where individuals simulate a future failure and work backward to determine potential causes

Normalcy bias is a psychological phenomenon where individuals assume future conditions will resemble current conditions to prevent continuous cognitive vigilance

The Clever Hans effect refers to a late-1800s horse whose apparent arithmetic capability was discovered to be a conditioned response to involuntary physical cues from the horse's handler