Introduction to special issue. Beyond the lab: Using big data to discover principles of cognition.

Beyond the lab: Using big data to discover principles of cognition This impact arises from the meeting of three forces: data availability, data heterogeneity, and data analyzability. Below we describe the contributions to this special issue, grouped into three broad clusters: uses of naturalistic or crowdsourced data, methodological advances (with an emphasis on improving data analyzability), and the creation of new data resources. Several contributions focus on the creation of new data or aggregating existing data in novel ways, or providing new interfaces for accessing and aggregating existing data. [Extracted from the article]