Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

Embodied cognition (EC) underlines that cognition is constrained by the kind of body we
possess, and stresses the importance of action for cognition. In this perspective the body is …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

In times of hype surrounding the 'Internet of Things','blockchain universities','learning
analytics' and the like, this special issue of the International Journal of Educational …

The Government of Japan's “Society 5.0” initiative aims to create a cyber-physical society in
which (among other things) citizens' daily lives will be enhanced through increasingly close …

Augmented reality (AR) has the potential to reshape the mobile shopping experience and
create more meaningful consumer-brand relationships. Yet, the broader experiential and …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

A potent new book examines the overlap between our ecological crisis and video games
Video games may be fun and immersive diversions from daily life, but can they go beyond …

The goal of this article is to present a first list of ethical concerns that may arise from research
and personal use of virtual reality (VR) and related technology, and to offer concrete …