Rising political animosity threatens democracy in the United States and other nations. Previous research indicates that intergroup contact under favorable conditions can reduce animosity. Other research indicates that mutually beneficial cooperation...
The Animal-AI Environment is a unique game-based research platform designed to facilitate collaboration between the artificial intelligence and comparative cognition research communities...
This research entails investigating possible cognitive processes in ‘simple ’– often non-neuronal – organisms as a means to discover conserved mechanisms and adaptive capacities underwriting cognition...
Active vision, the sensory-motor process through which animals dynamically adjust visual input to sample and prioritize relevant information via photoreceptors, eyes, head, and body movements, is well-documented across species...
A cross-disciplinary team at Baylor’s Sleep Neuroscience & Cognition Lab will study how spiritual dreams influence flourishing and religious cognition in young-adult Christians using in-lab dream observation and incubation, and at-home sleep tracking diaries.
Led by Gary Elkins at Baylor University, this project investigates a novel spiritual exercise that involves a guided invocation designed to facilitate profound mystical experiences and examine the impact of integrating these with a Christian worldview.