Visual Cognition Lab

AI Visual Tools for Causal Reasoning

• 🔥 Oboe Causal Graphs: Causal graphs allow an AI to identify confounders and distinguish real causal...

This paper establishes speculation as a key element of design processes in architecture studios, aimed at inventing new ways of thinking and making beyond conventional approaches.

Causal graphs enable AI to identify confounders and distinguish real causal pathways from spurious correlations. This forms the foundation for smarter AI reasoning.

Charts, diagrams, and interactive visualizations explain ideas 10× faster than paragraphs. Claude builds them for free – an accessible testbed for experimenting with AI-generated visuals in cognitive science.

AI Interactive Visual Tools

• 🔥 Claude's Interactive Visuals: A hands-on review describes Anthropic's Claude interactive visuals as its coolest...

• Complex decisions overwhelm because the brain solves mental representations, not reality – vague ones cause overload.
• High cognitive load from...

Combat info hoarding by transforming notes from digital dust to processed knowledge.

Key phases of Cornell v2.0:

• Raw Capture: Record signal, ignore...

Claude's new interactive visuals revolutionize diagram use in AI chats:

• Inline & adaptive: HTML-based charts/diagrams render directly in responses,...

Neuroscientific Advances in Visual Memory

• 🔥 Redrawing the Memory Map: Neuroscientists are redrawing the map of memory using strikingly visual...

Core contrast in AI reps:

• Indexical constraints: Reps select variables/dynamics based on agent sensorimotor setup
• Neuro-inspired advances:...

Emerging trend in cognitive science: External visuals boost memory.

• Neuroscientists redraw memory maps as visual sketches, elevating mind mapping...

Memories AI, spun from Meta, builds a visual memory layer for wearables/robots to index and retrieve video memories:

• Tackles robotics' bottleneck of...

Hands-on hack for cognitive offloading in AI coding:

• Set up Obsidian vault to store project architecture, coding standards, and UI patterns—giving...

VR as a multimodal visual interface transforms N-back training:

• VRN-Back fuses adaptive N-back with music rhythm mechanics in VR for higher...

Emerging trend: Claude's new Visualizer turns prompts into interactive charts, timelines, and data viz—explore via sliders, no coding needed.

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AI Tools for Diagram Generation

• Draw.io MCP in Claude: YouTube tutorial demonstrates creating business process diagrams like process flows, swim...

• Cognitive boost: High-fidelity AI agents, rich in task context and design representations, drive focused exploration, symmetric solutions, deeper...

Smart lifelogging technologies capture daily logs to support episodic memory impairment (EMI), affecting over 26 million with Alzheimer's. A promising external tool for externalizing and aiding recall in cognitive decline.

Recalibration isn't limited to external spatial perception—it extends to internal representations of the body, as demonstrated in the rubber hand...

AI Diagram Generation Updates

• 🔥 Claude's Inline Visuals: Anthropic’s Claude AI now generates custom charts, diagrams, and interactive...