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Psychology: AttentionAttention is the concentration of awareness directed at some task or phenomenon while mostly excluding others.3 min / Deep
Capgras delusionCapgras delusion or Capgras syndrome (CS) is a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend, spouse, parent, other close family member, or pet has been replaced by an identical impostor.3 min / Deep
Cognitive biasA cognitive bias is a systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment.3 min / Deep
Psychology: Decision-makingIn psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options.3 min / Deep
Psychology: DreamA dream is a succession of images, dynamic scenes and situations, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep.3 min / Deep
Psychology: LearningLearning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behavior, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.3 min / Deep
Psychology: MemoryMemory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed.3 min / Deep
Psychology: PerceptionPerception (from Latin perceptio 'gathering, receiving') is the identification, interpretation and organization of sensory information, in order to represent and understand the presented information or environment.3 min / Deep
Psychology: Split-brainSplit-brain or callosal syndrome is a type of disconnection syndrome when the corpus callosum connecting the two hemispheres of the brain is severed to some degree.3 min / Deep
Psychology: SynesthesiaSynesthesia (American English) or synaesthesia (British English) is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in other sensory or cognitive pathways.3 min / Deep