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r/cognitivescience

56.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.7K upvotes, which works out to 48 per 1,000 members.

48peak upvotes per 1,000 members
56.8Kmembers
2.7Kbest post
459most comments
71posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

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Link 39% Question 25% Text 21% Image 10% Video 4%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Gen Z intelligence decline emerging as serious concern. For over a century, generations showed rising IQ scores. New data from U.S., Europe, global a…

↑ 2.7K 💬 459 link 2026

Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research

↑ 1K 💬 39 link 2025

Memory and cognitive disability rates are surging in young people, research shows. Researchers from the University of Utah analyzed over 4.5 million …

↑ 914 💬 115 link 2026

Schizophrenia as a Disorder of the Predictive Brain

↑ 717 💬 114 link 2026

Went down the impossible colors rabbit hole and now I can't stop thinking about perceptual hard limits

↑ 564 💬 69 text 2026

Significantly Enhancing Adult Intelligence With Gene Editing May Be Possible

↑ 556 💬 19 link 2025

The Neuroscience of Shared Political Narratives: MAGA as a 'Pooled Interpreter' System

↑ 516 💬 137 text 2025

The Most Effective Method Discovered So Far to Boost the Human Brain: Fully Activate the Nervous System

↑ 479 💬 33 text 2025

The cognitive research field is being astro-surfed by a cabal of radical Nazis

↑ 446 💬 97 text 2026

Semantic Knowledge Is Key to Human Innovation

↑ 331 💬 12 link 2026

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/cognitivescience, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.