Cognition

Our team works on narrative as a practice that influences how individuals frame and perceive the reality around them. We want to understand how narratives can change readers’ cognitive and embodied practices, such as engaging with their environments, with each other, and with works of art.

HiPerCog lab studies, and aims to develop a theory of, High Performance Cognition (HPC), which arises when a highly demanding dynamic cognitive task is performed with high skill. HPC is hypothesized to be due to tuning of attention processes. It generates subjective experience of Flow, and is a component of learning to perform to expert/optimal level. A key tenet of HPC is that it arises through learning of a demanding dynamic task. We work on projects studying skill learning in a range of tasks, including games, programming, and neurofeedback.