r/cogsci
141k members
r/cogsci is a subreddit with 141k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses cognition, brain, ai, cognitive science, and neural, and they frequently recommend/review neuroscience books.
The interdisciplinary study of the mind and intelligence, embracing philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics, and anthropology.
Popular Themes in r/cogsci
#1
Advice Requests
: "How to improve my intelligence"
15 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "I built a jsPsych hosting tool after too many painful online experiment setups"
1 post
#3
Pain & Anger
: "Cognitive Decline after years in fight or flight"
1 post
#4
Opportunities
: "Looking for motivated people for a Interest based Project"
1 post
#5
Self-Promotion
: "I'm a final-year Psychology student aiming to break into AI. I built a full-featured EEG Analysis Studio using Python (PyQt6 + MNE) to process brain waves. Thoughts?"
1 post
#6
News
: "Psychiatrist Søren Østergaard Warns That Relying on ChatGPT and Similar Tools Is Slowly Eroding Our Critical Thinking and Future Creativity"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/cogsci
#1
Cognition
: "Between 5 and 10 percent of people have no inner monologue at all, and researchers are only just starting to figure out what that actually does to Cognition"
71 posts
#2
Brain
: "How the Brain blurs real and imagined sensation"
27 posts
#3
Ai
: "If IQ can't be improved then why do they say Ai is lowering it?"
26 posts
#4
Cognitive Science
: "The state of Cognitive Science, according to my philosophy of mind professor"
25 posts
#5
Neural
: "Empirical evidence that EEG spectral peaks follow golden ratio organization: implications for cross-frequency coupling and Neural binding"
25 posts
#6
Memory
: "Memory isn't reproductive — it's reconstructive. Every recall event is also a modification event."
23 posts
#7
Consciousness
: "All 325+ Consciousness Theories In One Interactive Chart | Consciousness Atlas"
20 posts
#8
Intelligence
: "How to improve my Intelligence"
20 posts
#9
Neuroscience
: "Neuroscience says multitasking makes your brain age faster. Neuroscientists at Stanford University found that heavy multitaskers showed decreased gray matter density in the anterior cingulate cortex—a region critical for attention and cognitive control—compared to those focused on one task at a time"
19 posts
#10
Cogsci
: "I believe I experienced something called metacognitive detachment, it got me fascinated and scared as hell"
13 posts
Products Discussed in r/cogsci
Neuroscience Books
8 reviews
#1
Gazzaniga et al.
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
Bear et al.
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
Eric Kandel, James Schwartz, Tom Jessell
5.0★ from 1 review
Flair Used in r/cogsci
#1
Neuroscience
: "How the brain blurs real and imagined sensation"
26 posts
#2
Psychology
: "Psychiatrist Søren Østergaard Warns That Relying on ChatGPT and Similar Tools Is Slowly Eroding Our Critical Thinking and Future Creativity"
16 posts
#3
AI/ML
: "Neural network system “figures out” how to use a tool"
13 posts
#4
Misc.
: "Those who graduated in Cog. Sci., what is your job now?"
11 posts
#5
Meta
: "The state of cognitive science, according to my philosophy of mind professor"
7 posts
#6
Philosophy
: "All 325+ Consciousness Theories In One Interactive Chart | Consciousness Atlas"
7 posts
#7
Language
: "Me as an undergrad in psychology asking my prof what embodied cognition is"
4 posts
#8
Education
: "Educational Technology vs. Cognitive Performance: A Decade of Data"
1 post
#9
Neuroscience/Philosophy
: "Why is conscious experience dominated by vision?"
1 post
#10
Advice
: "Prospective Cognitive Science Student"
1 post
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+12k members(9.3%)
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Last updated: June 9, 2026