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Greta Munger is Professor of Psychology at Davidson College whose works include The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. Dave Munger is co-founder and president of ResearchBlogging.org and a writer whose works include Researching Online. And yes, he is married to Greta.
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February 28, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
One of the most famous perceptual demos is the ambiguous image or "bi-stable figure" of a duck - rabbit: (source: curiouser.co.uk) As presented, it looks like a duck, but rotated to the right, it suddenly "transforms" into a rabbit. There...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:02 PM • 2 Comments
February 25, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Aristotle wrote that drama must be guided by three principles, the Unities. All aspects of a good play must take place in the same location, within a short time period, and contribute to a single plot. Otherwise, forced to stretch...
Posted by Dave Munger at 11:02 AM • 3 Comments
February 24, 2005
Category: Film • Language • Research
Literary theory is being influenced more and more by research in cognitive psychology, and as the previous article I discussed showed, psychology research is also influenced by theory. Today's article, "Generating Predictive Inferences While Viewing a Movie" (Joseph P. Magliano,...
Posted by Dave Munger at 6:02 AM • 0 Comments
February 17, 2005
Category: Film • Perception • Research
Most schools of literary criticism suggest that it's fruitless to attempt to consider what the intentions of the author are; we can only examine the "text" itself: it is the only solid evidence we have. Similarly, critics toss up their...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:02 AM • 1 Comments
February 16, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
A couple weeks back on my personal blog, I posted a rant about Marshall McLuhan. Basically I was arguing that while the medium may be the message, the medium isn't the only message. There was a fair bit of commentary...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:02 AM • 0 Comments
February 14, 2005
Category: Art • Perception • Research
Today's reading is "Artists as Experts in Visual Cognition," by Aaron Kozbelt of the University of Chicago (Visual Cognition, 2001). We need to incorporate many skills in order to make visual sense of the world. We must be able to...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:02 PM • 0 Comments
February 10, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
How do we tell where an object is in a three-dimensional world when our eye only gives us two dimensions worth of information? Today's reading ("Moving Cast Shadows Induce Apparent Motion in Depth" by Daniel Kersten, Pascal Mamassian, and David...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:02 PM • 1 Comments
February 4, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Today's reading is "Prior Knowledge on the Illlumination Position" by Pascal Mamassian and Ross Goutcher of the University of Glasgow (Cognition, 2001 [PDF link]). When we see an embossed seal such as a notary stamp, how do we know which...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:02 PM • 2 Comments
February 1, 2005
Category: Perception • Research
Today's reading is "When Sound Affects Vision: Effects of Auditory Grouping on Visual Motion Perception," by Katsumi Watanabe and Shinsuke Shimojo of Caltech (Psychological Science, 2001). In 1997, Sekuler, Sekuler, and Lau discovered a fascinating effect that I've attempted to...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:02 PM • 6 Comments
