{"title":"Subscription and Copyright Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/s1364-6613(26)00146-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1364-6613(26)00146-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148552170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rhythmic sampling of decision alternatives through attention.","authors":"Alireza Valizadeh","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.04.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent work by Siems et al. shows that the brain rhythmically samples competing alternatives through covert spatial attention. This challenges continuous models of decision-making and suggests that evaluation is temporally structured by oscillatory dynamics, with attention determining when alternatives are accessed rather than reflecting changes in their representations.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":"577-578"},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147934948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Geographical psychology: Spatial variation in psychological phenomena and their consequences.","authors":"Peter J Rentfrow, Tobias Ebert, Friedrich M Götz","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.06.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.06.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychological traits are not uniformly distributed across space; they are geographically clustered. The emerging interdisciplinary field of geographical psychology integrates insights from psychology and the social sciences to understand the causes and consequences of this clustering. By leveraging big data, geospatial analysis, and computational modeling, researchers have identified robust geographical patterns across regions and nations in personality, values, well-being, and prejudice. This review synthesizes key findings on these geographical differences and how they relate to societal-level and individual-level outcomes. Opportunities and challenges for a cognitive science that incorporates a geographical perspective are discussed. Overall, a geographical perspective highlights the dynamic interplay between place and psychology, offering new insights into human behavior and pathways for integrating geography into cognitive science.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148363294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching beyond decrements: Attentional guidance across the adult lifespan.","authors":"Nir Shalev, Dominique Lamy","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Visual search depends on attentional priority, shaped by stimulus salience, current goals, and prior experiences. Although overall search performance declines with age, it remains unclear to what extent this reflects impaired attentional guidance rather than other age-related changes. In this review article, we evaluate how each source of guidance operates across adulthood. Once perceptual factors and general slowing are accounted for, experience-based guidance is largely preserved across timescales, from intertrial priming to lifetime knowledge. Guidance by stable goals and physical salience is also broadly intact. However, specific age-related changes emerge: the influence of past experiences increases under demanding conditions, and goal-directed attention becomes less efficient when priorities must be rapidly reconfigured, pointing to difficulty in resolving conflicts between past and present priorities.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148320204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking into working memory through micro eye movements.","authors":"Freek van Ede","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Understanding how humans select, rehearse, and transform internal representations 'in mind' is vital. Gaining access to these latent working-memory processes, however, is not trivial. Here, I review the recent discovery that working-memory processes 'leak' into spatial biases in minuscule eye movements known as microsaccades. I first unpack this central finding and position it alongside complementary findings from the literature on attention, memory, and eye movements. Next, I adopt a pragmatic perspective, showcasing how microsaccade biases can be leveraged as a versatile signal to 'track' working-memory processes, with benefits that complement traditional brain-imaging approaches. Finally, I outline opportunities and future avenues opened by this recently exposed and remarkably reliable association between externally accessible micro eye movements and internal working-memory processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148279329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Timescapes of non-human experience.","authors":"Ishan Singhal, Jonathan Birch, Anil K Seth","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.05.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.05.002","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>How can we investigate non-human experiences scientifically? Given substantial differences in sensory abilities and the private nature of consciousness, this remains an open question. In this review, we propose a way to gain empirical traction on one key feature of experience: its temporal structure, or 'timescape'. Perceptual contents follow systematic temporal principles-synchronisation, revision, and persistence-and are sampled across attentional windows and vary in stability. These principles can be explored through temporal illusions and experimental paradigms. We conceptualise an animal's timescape in terms of five key windows, all of which are experimentally testable, and analyse evidence across animal species to highlight varying timescapes. Together, these ideas lay the foundations for a research programme comparing the temporal Umwelts of non-human animals.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Building word meanings from memories and predictions.","authors":"Jennifer M Rodd","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.05.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Successful communication requires that members of a language community share a common store of knowledge about words and their meanings. Yet, words show remarkable flexibility, adapting to different situations and extending their meanings in novel and creative ways. The FUSE (Flexible Use of Semantic and Episodic knowledge) model offers a unified account of stability and flexibility in word meaning. Word meanings are constructed dynamically by integrating relatively stable, stored lexical-semantic knowledge with context-specific semantic predictions and idiosyncratic semantic associations that are retrieved from episodic memory. When words are ambiguous or used in unfamiliar or creative ways, contextual predictions and episodic memories become especially important, compensating for the limitations of stored lexical knowledge.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148273508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To model human linguistic prediction, make LLMs less superhuman.","authors":"Byung-Doh Oh, Tal Linzen","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.05.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.05.008","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When we read, we make predictions about upcoming words; these predictions influence our reading behavior. The success of large language models (LLMs), which, like humans, make predictions about upcoming words, has motivated their use as models of human linguistic prediction. Surprisingly, in the last few years, as LLMs' ability to predict the next word has improved, their ability to explain reading behavior has declined. We argue this is because current LLMs can predict upcoming words much better than human readers can. This 'superhumanness' is driven by LLMs' extensive training data, stronger long-term memory of training examples, and stronger short-term memory. We advocate for LLMs with human-like memory and for new experiments to measure the alignment between humans and LLMs, and we outline directions toward achieving these goals.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":20.3,"publicationDate":"2026-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13352589/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148240438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jörn Diedrichsen, Mehrdad Kashefi, Amin Nazerzadeh, J Andrew Pruszynski
{"title":"Online planning of sequential actions.","authors":"Jörn Diedrichsen, Mehrdad Kashefi, Amin Nazerzadeh, J Andrew Pruszynski","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2026.05.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.05.006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Natural behavior unfolds as a continuous stream of actions. Because these actions often occur in rapid succession, the brain must prepare multiple future actions while the current action is being executed-a process we refer to as online planning. We review evidence for online planning in unpredictable movement sequences and consider neural implementations that could support parallel execution and multiple planning processes. We then show how this new framework could apply to the learning of specific sequences, improving performance while retaining the ability to modify sequences online. Online planning, therefore, provides a unifying account of how both unpredictable and well-learned sequences are produced, and how training leads to skillful and coordinated performance while retaining behavioral flexibility.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.2,"publicationDate":"2026-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148220259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advisory Board and Contents","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/s1364-6613(26)00114-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/s1364-6613(26)00114-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"146 1","pages":"i-ii"},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148287334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}