Paul Bloom PhD, Cognitive and Developmental Psychology

Neuroscience is hopeless.

So this is just one example of a new era really in cognitive neuroscience where we're beginning to understand psychological processes

And, of course, neuroscience,

Knowledge, therefore, emerges from developmental experience.

There is evidence from neuroscience.

The Bible actually talks about cognitive psychology, very primitive cognitive psychology.

There's a cognitive illusion.

Things that we know about neuroscience.

I actually had my own lab in the Computational Neuroscience department, and I wasn't doing any neuroscience.

Third step is cognitive dissonance.

I call it cognitive surplus.

Then I underwent cognitive training.

listening with your cognitive minds.

language, cognitive and psychomotor development.

And there's another cognitive bias

This is where the neuroscience comes in,

let's call them academic arguments or cognitive arguments where something cognitive is at stake

So, it really was cognitive psychology you know, cognitive dissonance that I was experiencing.

In neuroscience now we can actually make neurons...

If you work on one neuron, that's neuroscience.

It emerges from our understanding of basic neuroscience.

The first C is cognitive training.

This has literally revolutionized cognitive science.

It's limited by our cognitive biases.

From all those developmental interactions that I've showed you before.

One is called RELN it's involved in early developmental cues.

So this is a session on frontiers in neuroscience.

So when I started in neuroscience 11 years ago,

There's a new field in brain science, social neuroscience.

That's the second half of cognitive surplus.

Both of these rely on cognitive surplus.

It's way below your cognitive thinking process.

Early cognitive recognition tests indicate growing intelligence.

Measured I.Q. of 56, severe cognitive deficiency.

You have data, and data in neuroscience is sensory input.

Perception and neuroscience we do not need to copy exactly.

I mean, this is a real cognitive trap.

Cognitive surplus is made up of two things.

Great cognitive gain. OK, who won that argument?

Although apparently the cognitive continues to function normally.

I think that the sciences of human nature behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science are going to, increasingly in the years to come, upset various dogmas, careers and deeply held political belief systems.

Well, autism is the most strongly genetic condition of all developmental disorders.

It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of democracy.

In the last 20 years, developmental science has completely overturned that picture.