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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, 2006

What kids know about music (updated with poll)

Category: Development / AgingMusicResearch

Just by listening to music, we can learn a lot about its structures and conventions. For example, even you have no musical training, you can tell that something is wrong with this scale (it's followed by a proper C-major scale):...

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Is global warming an opportunity rather than a problem?

Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger

I try to stay away from answering "Ask a Scienceblogger" when it strays too far from my areas of expertise. This week, the question is the following: I read this article in the NRO, and the author actually made some...

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August 30, 2006

Dropping SAT scores: A plausible explanation

Category: Opinion

The local newspaper here in Charlotte was aghast that SAT scores (a test used to help determine college admissions in the US) fell in North Carolina this year, even though the article goes on to point out that nationwide the...

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August 29, 2006

What babies can hear through all that noise

Category: Development / AgingLanguageResearch

Listen to this short audio clip: Now listen to this one: Notice any difference? I didn't think so. But if you were a 5-month-old infant named Caroline, the difference would be crystal clear. In the second clip, your name would...

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Are we getting stupid again? Two ways of reporting on a study

Category: News

Is the Flynn Effect ending? Are kids getting dumber again? Could it be that after years of striking intelligence gains, we're now actually losing ground? We are if you read this article in the Times Online: After studying 25,000 children...

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August 28, 2006

Games, Dolphins, and Rock 'n' Roll: Quick links from around the web

Category: News

A judge has ruled against a recent Louisiana law banning the sale of violent video games to children. Since we've been rather outspoken here about the influence of violent games, I did want to reiterate that we've never advocated the...

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NPR on false confessions

Category: News

NPR has a nice report on the motivations behind false confessions. Give it a listen--it's just over two minutes long, and reporter Andy Bowers gives an excellent explanation of why people such as JonBenet Ramsey "killer" John Mark Karr might...

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August 25, 2006

Casual Fridays is back!

Category: Casual Fridays

Have you missed Casual Fridays? Our travel schedule over the summer made it impossible for us to keep up with Casual Fridays, but for the 2006-07 school year, we'll be back each Friday with either a new study or the...

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August 24, 2006

Multiple object tracking: How pilots can fly, and how we can possibly play Asteroids

Category: AttentionPerceptionResearch

Last year, my dad got his pilot's license. He took me up with him a couple months later, and while the view was spectacular, the most surprising aspect of flying is how much of a pilot's time is spent...

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August 23, 2006

New monitor technology may expand range of visible colors

Category: News

Television sets and video monitors rely on tricking the visual system into believing it is seeing the full range of possible colors. In reality, they are only generating approximations of the light that would actually enter the eye if we...

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Apparently conflicting results on obesity and mortality

Category: News

The Washington Post has an article claiming that being just a few pounds overweight can lead to premature death: The 10-year study of more than 500,000 U.S. adults found that those who were just moderately overweight in their fifties were...

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August 22, 2006

Different ways of finding your way

Category: Learning and testingPerceptionResearch

Learning to navigate through an unfamiliar environment can be a difficult challenge. Could you find your way through the crowded, narrow streets of the city depicted at left -- especially if the signs were in a foreign language (bonus...

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Young children's decisions about future mired in the present

Category: News

A new study finds that 3- to 5-year-olds appear to conflate their future needs with those of the present. Young children who have been fed pretzels and are thirsty are more likely to say they'll need water tomorrow than pretzels....

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August 21, 2006

Why is Greta so happy?

Category: Fun and games

Why does Greta look so happy in this photo? Perhaps it's because she's wearing her new neurotransmitter earrings, chosen by CogDaily readers (for the results of our poll, see this post). Seratonin and dopamine were in a dead heat, so...

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How smart are dolphins, anyway?

Category: News

Slashdot points to an Aljazeera (!) article about dolphin intelligence (or lack thereof). The article quotes scientist Paul Manger, who argues that since dolphins never think to jump out of enclosures such as holding tanks in aquariums, or tuna nets,...

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August 17, 2006

Babies and eye tracking

Category: Development / AgingPerceptionResearch

By the time a baby is 4 months old, she has begun to amass an impressive array of skills. She might be able to roll over, as Nora is demonstrating in this picture. She will almost certainly be able to...

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