Still 5 ***** Stars on the App Store
We are pleased to note that mySleepButton for iPhone and iPad continues to be rated 5 stars on the App Store, and to have nothing but positive reviews there!
Announcements
Research, Uncategorized
Are Nice People More Susceptible to Insomnia than Callous People?
Are nice people more susceptible to insomnia? Recent research may have implications for this question, which until recently was rarely previously asked. Callous? Unemotional? Chances are you won’t be losing any sleep over it
Research
Poster Presentation on Sleep Onset and Insomnia
One of the interesting things about the somnolent information processing theory is that it combines research from many different disciplines and areas of cognitive science. As such, it’s important to try to keep abreast of a wide variety of cognitive science research.
Press
About the Media Responses to the Cognitive Shuffle: Much Ado about a Research Programme
Yesterday, on CogZest’s blog, Luc Beaudoin published some thoughts about the recent media attention to his sleep onset/insomnia R&D: Media Responses to the Cognitive Shuffle: Much Ado about a Research Programme
Announcements, Opportunities
Opportunities: Ph.D. Co-Supervision; App-Developer, QA and Marketing Assistant
We have several classes of opportunities available at the moment. Please get in touch via email (see our contact page), with the email subject starting with “Opportunities:” followed by the title below. (Please do follow this format.)
Announcements, Research
Dr. Sylwia Hyniewska —Affective Scientist on Board of Advisors
CogSci Apps benefits from its collaborations with several researchers. Some of our advisors are listed on the CogZest Advisory Board web page. In this post, we would like to acknowledge the contribution of Dr. Sylwia Hyniewska.
Testimonials
Marj “OMG – I was astonished. It worked”
All I can say is …. this is the answer to sleepless nights, when the hamster wheel is in overdrive. I feel like I haven’t slept for months, having a really tough time, waking up in the morning feeling exhausted. I heard a quick snip on CBC radio re: Serial Diverse Imaging, interest piqued for
Uncategorized
“Good Night, Toast” Oprah Magazine (May 2017 Issue) on mySleepButton
Read about the cognitive shuffle, mySleepButton and Luc Beaudoin on page 105 of May issue of Oprah Magazine (print only) “Good Night, Toast. —An easy little game to trick yourself to sleep” —an article by Kelly DiNardo.
Research
Perturbance: An Important Concept for Understanding “Racing Minds” and Other Forms of Repetitive Thinking
My colleagues and I recently published a paper that provides one of the essential concepts for understanding insomnia and a host of other constructive, banal, and problematic mental states. The concept is perturbance, which is a persistent tendency to consider affectively laden mental content — problems, issues, concerns, wishes, wants, desires, fears, yearnings, etc.
Announcements, Research
Preliminary Results of a Study Comparing The Cognitive Shuffle with Backward Counting (Like “Counting Sheep”)
Researchers at the University of Montreal will present a paper in Montreal comparing the cognitive shuffle with backward counting. This research was undertaken for several reasons, one of which is that insomnia research has to date assessed surprisingly few deliberate mentation strategies. For example, old techniques such as reading, listening to the radio, and the