Imagine you are in a soccer match, and it’s tied. Each team will begin taking penalty kicks. The crowd is roaring, and whether or not your team wins the game depends on your ability to hit the shot.

The study of cognitive processes in reasoning and mental models explores the ways in which individuals represent, manipulate, and utilise internal representations to draw inferences and make decisions ...

This is Part 2 of a five-part blog series exploring the nature of cognition and its relationship with consciousness. In Part 1, we considered the surprisingly elusive definition of cognition as well ...