Cognition:
Thanks to John Wilkins, I want to point you to an excellent review on the current state of research (both scientific and philosophical) in Animal Cognition....
Posted on January 8, 2008 9:23 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I had no time to read this in detail and write a really decent overview here, perhaps I will do it later, but for now, here are the links and key excerpts from a pair of exciting new papers in...
Posted on January 7, 2008 8:14 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Rockridge Institute published a set of articles (and a video ad) that I found quite interesting about the way to frame health care. See for yourself: Introduction to Rockridge's Health Care Campaign: Framing for Rockridge is about the honest expression...
Posted on October 30, 2007 10:46 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Come see Sapolsky, Deacon, de Waal, Rosenberg, Dennett, Fox Keller and others talk about what it means to be human (or chimp).
Posted on September 14, 2007 9:16 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the May 18th issue of Science there is a revew paper by Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg. An expanded version of it also appeared recently in Edge and many science bloggers are discussing it these days. Enrique has...
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Posted on May 31, 2007 1:28 PM • 16 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Last week's Casual Friday study on Cognitive Daily tried to look at the way various curse words are used and perceived by their blog readers. Today, the results are in and, though not surprising, they are quite interesting. The sample...
Posted on April 27, 2007 5:38 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Sex And Prenatal Hormone Exposure Affect Cognitive Performance: Yerkes researchers are using their findings to better understand sex differences in cognitive performance, which may lead to increased understanding of the difference in neuropsychological disorders men and women experience. In one...
Posted on April 16, 2007 2:56 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Truth, All the Truth, and Nothing but the Truth. You are all familiar with the phrase. It actually figures prominently (though unspoken until now) in this whole discussion about framing science. Nobody - absolutely nobody - ever suggests that anything...
Posted on April 13, 2007 10:33 AM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
When my 'Scientific American' arrived the other day, I was excited to read the article about ravens by Bernd Heinrich, as I loved his book Mind of a Raven. I was also glad to see that new cool experiments have...
Posted on April 10, 2007 6:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It appears that scientists are not the only ones who do not grok framing. Jeffrey Feldman's book got blasted by some ninkompoop in NY Times yesterday. Jeff responds: Indeed, when I read that passage I wondered if the reviewer had...
Posted on April 9, 2007 2:34 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
My SciBlings Chris Mooney and Matt Nisbet just published an article in 'Science' (which, considering its topic is, ironically, behind the subscription wall, but you can check the short press release) about "Framing Science" Carl Zimmer, PZ Myers, Mike Dunford...
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Posted on April 7, 2007 3:33 AM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Let me state up front that this is not a topic I know anything about, but I have always had a curiosity for it, so let me just throw some thoughts out into the Internets and see if commenters or...
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Posted on December 13, 2006 11:58 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Humans do it, great apes do it, dolphins do it, now elephants (also here) have also been shown to do it - recognize themselves in the mirror, i.e., realize that the image in the mirror is the image of themselves...
Posted on October 31, 2006 10:33 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You can read and LISTEN TO the 45th Edition of the Skeptic's Circle at The Inoculated Mind...
Posted on October 12, 2006 9:59 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Chimpanzees Can Transmit Cultural Behavior To Multiple 'Generations': Transferring knowledge through a chain of generations is a behavior not exclusive to humans, according to new findings by researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University and the...
Posted on August 31, 2006 2:26 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Where does one start with debunking fallacies in this little article? Oy vey! Dolphins and whales are dumber than goldfish and don't have the know-how to match a rat, new research from South Africa shows. For years, humans have assumed...
Posted on August 28, 2006 9:03 AM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bumble Bees Can Estimate Time Intervals: In a finding that broadens our understanding of time perception in the animal kingdom, researchers have discovered that an insect pollinator, the bumble bee, can estimate the duration of time intervals. Although many insects...
Posted on August 26, 2006 2:41 PM • 2 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
This is the reduced and softened version of the worst and nastiest blog-post title I ever used. But I was furious. See why....
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Posted on August 10, 2006 10:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Survey questions themselves may affect behavior: Simply asking college students who are inclined to take drugs about their illegal-drug use in a survey may increase the behavior, according to a study that's making researchers understandably nervous. "We ask people questions,...
Posted on July 21, 2006 4:25 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This post was a response to a decent (though not too exciting) study and the horrible media reporting on it. As the blogosphere focused on the press releases, I decided to look at the paper itself and see what...
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Posted on July 12, 2006 10:59 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Bush Is Not Incompetent by George Lakoff: Progressives have fallen into a trap. Emboldened by President Bush's plummeting approval ratings, progressives increasingly point to Bush's "failures" and label him and his administration as incompetent. Self-satisfying as this criticism may be,...
Posted on June 26, 2006 4:20 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Synapse, new carnival of neuroscience - from molecules to cognition and everything in-between - is the first carnival that originated here on SEED scienceblogs.com. Today, the first edition saw the light of day, so you should go over to...
Posted on June 25, 2006 2:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Yes, I know that I am supposed to be the resident expert on all things temporal (check the name of this blog, after all), and I am actually very interested in the topic of subjective perception of time (in humans,...
Posted on June 20, 2006 11:57 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks