2026-10-07 SIP/ cognitive shuffle presentation by Luc P. Beaudoin- University of Ottawa
By Sunday 2026-10-11, I will publish here A link to a YouTube recording of this talk A link to my slides
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Testimonial: Effective_Storm praises mySleepButton
On Reddit. I use two different apps, one is called Brainwaves, it uses frequencies to help you sleep. Sometimes it helps…. If it doesn’t [I] use mySleepButton, it’s strange, but it says random things for 20 minutes and I’m usually out before it ends.
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mySleepButton version 1.12 fixes the “Failed. Tap To retry.”
iOS 26 and iPad OS 26 introduced bugs which could cause mySleepButton packs to fail to load. To the right of packs on the Packs screen some users saw “Failed. Tap To retry.” mySleepButton 1.12 released earlier this month fixed this problem.
Research
We design great apps thanks to our cognitive science expertise
Our software company is called CogSci Apps for a reason: our software is designed with cognitive science in mind. Following Donald Schön, we recognize that one cannot directly infer engineering (or psychotherapy) from science—but one can design better systems by using science as a guiding resource. So it is that our two apps are based
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“This app has completely solved my issue with falling asleep.”
– I use an app called mySleepButton. This app has completely solved my issue with falling asleep. My mind would constantly be thinking of everything while I’m supposed to be winding down for sleep. The app says items or situations to picture in your mind. If your brain focuses on just producing that image, and
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peri_5xg: “That is absolutely brilliant”
That [cognitive shuffling concept] is absolutely brilliant. I’ve never heard of that term. Exactly it! Sometimes I will just go through the alphabet with random words rather than a specific category which sounds a little bit more like cognitive shuffling. r/lifehack
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ChatGPT Summary of our upcoming paper on somnolent information processing
I’m currently writing an article for Hookmark’s blog about using AI to summarize and assess knowledge resources—papers, books, videos, and more—using an Analytical Notes Template included with Hookmark.
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Testimonial from Irene: amazing[…]!
“I just wanted to express how amazing your app is! It’s the only one that consistently helps me fall asleep quickly” (23 Sept 2025)
Mindfulness
🧘♂️ BSBM+: Updating A New Advanced Multi-Anchor Meditation Technique
🧘♂️ BSBM+: A New Advanced Multi-Anchor Meditation Technique If you’re familiar with my work on the cognitive shuffle and other cognitive techniques for improving sleep and emotional regulation, you might be interested in my updates to the new meditation method I’ve developed. It’s now called BSBM+. The “+” is for the optional unstructured meditation that
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BSBM: A new form of meditation
If you read my initial article on the cognitive shuffle and the theory behind it, published in 2013, you’ll see that I said that the cognitive shuffle (such as serial diverse imagining) is a form of meditation. None of the journalists who covered the cognitive shuffle, to my knowledge, has commented on that. Most forms