The Agentic Age Needs A Cognitive Operating Model
Last October, I published a blog proposing a different mental model for AI agents: Treat them as cognitive skills and products, ...
Thursday, July 16, 2026
Tag: Cognitive
We tend to think our actions follow from our beliefs — but cognitive dissonance means we often rewrite our beliefs to justify what we’ve already done, not the reverse
In 1959, Stanford students sat through a deliberately tedious task, then were paid to tell the next participant it had ...
The Free Cognitive Screening Hidden in Your Medicare Visit
Many seniors worry about memory loss, confusion, or whether occasional forgetfulness is a normal part of aging. What many Medicare ...
8 “Micro-Habits” of Super-Agers Who Have No Cognitive Decline After Age 90
Growing older does not automatically mean losing memory, focus, or mental sharpness. More recently, researchers have discovered what they are ...
Hearing Loss Risk: About 1 in 3 Adults Over 65 Are Affected—Why It’s Now Linked to Faster Cognitive Decline
It’s easy to dismiss hearing loss as a normal part of aging, but new research suggests it may be far ...
Brain Health Win: Learning a New Skill After Age 55 Lowers Cognitive Decline Risk by 23%
Learning something new can be frustrating and challenging, but it can also keep you healthy. That’s right. Research is now ...
Psychology says people who have no close friends aren’t usually socially incompetent — they have a pattern-recognition ability that makes small talk feel like cognitive torture
I noticed something at a work event a few years back. A colleague of mine spent the entire evening hovering ...
9 cognitive habits people develop when they grew up bilingual that have nothing to do with language and everything to do with how their brain learned to hold two realities at once
Bilingualism can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by up to five years compared to monolingual adults. That statistic alone ...
Research suggests that people who talk to themselves out loud while problem-solving aren’t eccentric — they’re accessing a cognitive loop that processes information 30% more efficiently than internal dialogue, and the habit that most people suppress in public is the exact mechanism their brain would choose if social judgement weren’t part of the equation
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Think about the last time you caught yourself talking out loud to ...
If you’re over 65 and these 8 things come naturally to you, your cognitive health is exceptional
Add Silicon Canals to your Google News feed. Remember when we used to think cognitive decline was just an inevitable ...
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