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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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October 31, 2006

Halloween special: Does Batman party with SpongeBob?

Category: Development / AgingIntentionalityReasoningResearch

Any grown-up would be surprised to see SpongeBob Squarepants show up in a Batman movie. Clearly, these characters inhabit two different fantasy worlds: one lives in a fabulous mansion near bustling Gotham City, while the other inhabits an underwater...

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October 30, 2006

Face recognition: Not just about processing speed

Category: EmotionFace perceptionResearch

Face recognition is a task which humans do with little effort, even though in fact it's a tremendously difficult problem. To recognize a face, we need to be able to ignore traits that change over time, while focusing in on...

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Chris Mooney on scientists, journalism, and government

Category: NewsOpinion

Yesterday I spent a delightful several hours having lunch with Chris Mooney (of Seed, Scienceblogs, and war on science fame) and attending his talk in Durham, NC. I also got to meet fellow ScienceBloggers Abel Pharmboy and Coturnix. At lunch,...

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October 27, 2006

Casual Fridays: Why most people don't see this illusion

Category: Casual Fridays

On Monday, I posted a recently-discovered visual illusion with a quick poll to see how many of our readers could spot the illusion. As it turned out, not very many of them did. This was surprising to me, because the...

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October 26, 2006

New York Times on Stereotype Threat

Category: News

The New York Times has an article on the most recent stereotype threat research: Women perform worse on math tests when they are first told that men are better at math. When they are told that men and women are...

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October 25, 2006

Actually, a picture is worth 1.5 words

Category: ArtAttentionLanguageMemoryResearch

Everyone knows the saying "a picture is worth a thousand words." Bound by that axiom, magazines, newspapers, and most of all, TV, bombard us with pictures every day. The latest hot internet properties aren't text-based sites like Google but picture-based...

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Do deadlines help procrastinators?

Category: News

The Social Science Statistics blog (new to me, but it's been around for a while) has a good writeup of a 2002 study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch which systematically examines the effectiveness of deadlines in preventing procrastination: They...

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October 24, 2006

The Best Science TV Show of All Time

Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger

This week's "Ask a ScienceBlogger" question is easy: The best science TV show is Mythbusters. Let's face it: most TV science programming is downright awful. It dumbs down the content, and tends not to explain the really interesting part of...

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Visual illusion wrap-up: Some ideas as to how it works

Category: Analysis

There was plenty of interest in yesterday's audio-visual illusion. In case you missed it, I'll post it again here: Play the movie with the sound turned up. If the illusion works, then you'll see a dot flash twice, accompanied by...

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October 23, 2006

Very cool visual illusion confirmed (updated with new poll)

Category: MusicPerceptionResearch

There's nothing cooler for a perception researcher (or writer) than a new visual illusion. When I learned about this one, I spent half the day Thursday trying to recreate it, but I couldn't get it to work. Finally, in five...

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Miscellaneous links from around the web

Category: News

Winners of mid-sized lottery prizes are happier than losers -- or those winning small prizes -- even over the long term. Chris Chatham reviews a review of the research on Theory of Mind, the science of understanding how people understand...

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October 22, 2006

What is the resolution of the human eye?

Category: News

If the human eye was a digital camera, how many megapixels would it have? Clarkvision does the calculations. The answer: 576 megapixels. Impressive job -- I wish I had thought to do that. Note that their calculations require a bit...

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October 20, 2006

Casual Fridays: Can sound cause us to experience a visual illusion?

Category: Casual Fridays

Last week's Casual Friday study was inspired by a recently-discovered illusion which showed that sound could influence what people percieve visually. I was planning to report on the study confirming that illusion yesterday, but my computer wasn't cooperating with me,...

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October 19, 2006

New study attempts to quantify "internet addiction"

Category: News

The idea of a distinct "internet addiction" problem separate from, say, compulsive gambling or obsession with pornography isn't especially new. It's been studied since at least 1999, and we reported on one attempt to describe it in 2004. Yet in...

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October 18, 2006

Quick and dirty answer to "Ask a Scienceblogger"

Category: Ask a ScienceBlogger

This week's Ask a Scienceblogger: "Is severely regulating your diet for a month each year, as Muslims do during Ramadan, good for you?" I'd say that's nearly impossible to answer: there are too many other factors at work. But consider...

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Directory of open access journals

Category: News

Apropos of our discussion yesterday of the pros and cons of open access publishing, I'd like to point you to a great resource: the Directory of Open Access Journals. The Directory of Open Access Journals ... covers free, full text,...

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