People report greater curiosity about answers to scientific questions than answers to religious questions

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The self-explanation effect refers to coming to understand a concept better by attempting to explain that concept to oneself or another person

Psychologist Tanya Lombroso is a faculty member at Princeton University

The self-explanation effect can occur without receiving new information from the external world

Under the Pennington and Hastie story model, jurors evaluate guilt based on constructing an explanatory narrative of presented courtroom evidence

People express greater comfort with scientific explanations for vision and motor control than for religious beliefs, morality, or aesthetic appreciation

Changing the presentation order of witness testimony to match chronological sequence increases juror acceptance of a narrative

Tanya Lombroso previously taught as a professor at the University of California, Berkeley

The story model of juror decision-making was developed by researchers Nancy Pennington and Reid Hastie

The 'consider the opposite' cognitive strategy involves deliberately generating arguments against one's own position to reduce bias

Metacognition is cognition about one's own cognition

The illusion of explanatory depth occurs when people believe they understand how everyday mechanisms work better than people actually do

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

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

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