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The Kiki-Bouba effect: Deep inside your brain, cross-modal correspondences make you human. Which shape do you think is 'KIKI' and which one do you think is 'BOUBA'? ... ..... ...... ....... What is your answer? .... ..... ...... ....... Do you think the left one is KIKI and the right one is Bouba? .. ... ... Yeah? Or do you think it was the other way round? No problem if you thought it was the other way round. But it is just striking that.... 95% of the people think the left jagged shape is KIKI and the right bulbous shape is BOUBA!! You just demonstrated cross-modal correspondence. Something in your brain thought the sound of Kiki matched the left shape and something in Bouba matched the other right shape. Today, I am going to dive deep into my favourite topic in psychology and neuroscience - The Kiki-Bouba effect. It is something that may always separate us from the robots. Perhaps it holds the key to making robots more human. We don't know to what extent this may...

Mental models or Mental model thinking can help you learn better, get creative, and gain immense insight into the world. A recipe to genius: Mental modelling. The future of structured thinking   For a minute, think that your mind is a blank canvas.  But that can't be true. You are alive and are learning something, absorbing some information, this information.  Let's now put that blank canvas on top of your brain. Think of something crazy. That thing you just thought of, draw it on the canvas. The brain will now try to absorb that content and assimilate it into a bio-psychological framework built out of neural structures and a way to access it in meaningful ways.  Think of a square, a circle, a building. These are objects that the brain has assimilated as concepts.  Let us now expand the idea of this canvas drawing. Imagine for a moment that you can lay down amazingly complex concepts, big ideas, and processes from many topics onto this canvas. And then, you lear...

The average person spends 6-8 years of their life studying formally. This is, in fact, largely spread over 20 years of education and a 30-year career. A lot more of skill learning happens depending upon the person's career choice. In essence, you'd be spending 11-18% of your life acquiring information and skills ( I did some rough calculations for a college graduate with a 25+ year career, feel free to contest these estimates and improve the accuracy). Wouldn't you want to know how to make the most of those 11+ years by knowing how to study well? Find out how to study efficiently and be relaxed before exams. I'll discuss a few critical and efficient study tips and learning techniques which you can implement in your life as well as teach others who spend time studying. These are not just simple study tips. These are hardcore study methods developed based on psychological research on learning. In this article, I'll show you how to implement each technique for 3 categ...

The right way to talk with depressed people - 30 examples. In the previous article, I went through 15 sentences that you should not use while talking to depressed people . These sentences are commonly used and are pretty unhelpful. If you haven't read that, I recommend going through that as well. Perhaps right after this article. :) Before we get to the 30 sentences, I'll cover some general intentions that people should have while communicating with people experiencing a mood disorder or a depressive phase . Disclaimer: This is NOT a guide to therapy or clinical treatment. This is a guide to what individual non-professionals can do to help their depressed friends.  Let us assume that you are open to talking with depressed people first. And then, let me assume that you want to help them in any way you can. Highlights on what depression is:  Depression is a prolonged state of physical and mental low. Sleep and eating habits change. There is lack of motivation in many facets of ...