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Dave and Greta Munger Cognitive Daily reports nearly every day on fascinating peer-reviewed developments in cognition from the most respected scientists in the field.

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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August 31, 2005

More on video game violence

Category: ResearchSocialVideo Games / Technology

This is an image from the video game Asheron's Call 2 (source: mmorpg.com). Does playing such a game, involving regular practicing (albeit in a virtual environment) of repetitive, violent acts, increase our general level of aggression? A recent article...

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August 30, 2005

Critiquing the video game violence studies

Category: ResearchSocialVideo Games / Technology

Steven Johnson is a writer who I very much admire. I'm particularly impressed by his defense of video games and other technologies in his book Everything Bad is Good For You. However, in defending the good aspects of video games,...

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August 29, 2005

Reassessing the "Mozart Effect"

Category: Learning and testingMusicResearch

The "Mozart Effect" hit the mainstream media by storm in the mid 1990s, in the form of a bestselling book by the same name. A Google search for the topic still reveals a slew of products designed to exploit the...

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August 25, 2005

How does color tell us about motion?

Category: PerceptionResearch

The human brain is incredibly specialized. There are individual neurons for recognizing faces, edges of objects, and specific sounds. One fruitful area of research recently has been to determine precisely how specialized the brain really is. Here's one example. The...

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August 24, 2005

Tangled Bank #35

Category: General / Site news

Welcome to Tangled Bank—we're thrilled to finally have the opportunity to host. For CogDaily readers who may not be aware of Tangled Bank, it's a fortnightly "carnival" of the best science blog postings from the previous two weeks. There's always...

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August 23, 2005

What's going on when we see objects in motion?

Category: PerceptionResearch

Perceiving motion creates a fascinating problem for psychologists. Physicists for centuries have devised a whole set of rules describing how objects actually move. These rules are so precise and accurate that it's tempting to say that the human perceptual system...

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August 22, 2005

Tangled Bank is coming to Cognitive Daily

Category: General / Site news

This Wednesday, we'll be hosting Tangled Bank, a nifty collection of the best science blog postings for the last two weeks. If you've got a science blog—or any kind of a blog, actually, consider yourself invited to submit! Just pick...

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August 15, 2005

Do babies know if hidden objects are still there?

Category: Development / AgingPerceptionResearch

One of Jean Piaget's most famous observations is the phenomenon of "object permanence"—the idea that babies younger than eight months old have no conception of an object once it's hidden from view. It's easy to see how he came to...

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August 11, 2005

What an ugly sweater!

Category: Development / AgingResearchSocial

It happens to everyone. You open a present and find a gift of so little personal interest that you wonder if you got the wrong package. The classic may be clothes presented to a preschooler; who can expect a 3...

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August 8, 2005

Learning about stereotypes reduces their impact

Category: Development / AgingLearning and testingResearchSocial

"Boys are better at math" is a stereotype decades in the making, and it has in some cases been borne out by testing measures such as the SAT. The stereotype has been around so long that many wonder whether the...

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August 4, 2005

Perception in Legoland

Category: PerceptionResearch

Rummaging through your bag in search of keys, it's clear that you can recognize objects using just your fingers. But is it easier to recognize the keys if you feel them as if you were going to open to door,...

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August 1, 2005

Kids are influenced by their peers in eyewitness testimony

Category: MemoryResearchSocial

In every courtroom drama, the most dramatic scene is always when the star witness points her finger at the villain and proclaims that "he did it!" The confidence with which an eyewitness describes the perpetrator of a crime is often...

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