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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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June 29, 2007

Why having those annoying little siblings around constantly was probably good for you

Category: Development / AgingResearchSocial

This is a guest post by Martina Mustroph, one of Greta's top student writers for Spring 2007 Rats are often useful models for understanding human behavior,. Testing drugs on rats before testing them on humans is particularly enticing because it...

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June 28, 2007

Euro-update 5: What to do when you've got nothing you HAVE to do

Category: Fun and games

Here in Tuscany, the Munger family has rented a vacation house for a couple of weeks. Typically the day's biggest event is preparing dinner. Otherwise we generally just lounge around the house, admire the view, read, or converse over a...

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June 27, 2007

Implicit attitudes: How children develop biases about race

Category: Social

[originally posted on February 2, 2006] In connection to Monday's posting, Other-race faces: Why do they seem different?, I thought readers would be interested in a post from early last year concerning implicit attitudes on race. The link to the...

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June 25, 2007

Other-race faces: Why do they seem different?

Category: Development / AgingFace perceptionResearchSocial

This is a guest post by Rivka Ihejirika, one of Greta's top student writers for Spring 2007 Do you find it harder to recognize the face of someone from a race other than your own? Does it take you longer...

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June 22, 2007

Is sunshine good for you?

Category: In other news

Yesterday was the summer solstice, and the days are getting shorter; but before you go out and enjoy the sun this weekend: Is sunshine good for you? In other news: AMA weighs in on gaming and internet addiction Coffee 'could...

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June 21, 2007

Learning: Is reinforcement required?

Category: Learning and testingPerceptionResearch

This is a guest post by Laura Younger, one of Greta's top student writers from Spring 2007 Everyone has heard of the concept of reinforcement. You reinforce your child with dessert after finishing his or her vegetables; you praise your...

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June 20, 2007

Euro-update 4: Sperm whale perception

Category: Analysis

Euro-update 4: Sperm whale perception Tuscany is about the last place you might think to go to speculate about the visual system of a whale, but when you're spending three weeks relaxing in a secluded villa, you have a lot...

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June 19, 2007

This is your brain ... on violent video games

Category: Video Games / Technology

[originally posted on April 20, 2006] If you're older than about 20, you'll probably recognize the image to the left from an anti-drug campaign from the 1980s. The image was supposed to represent the effects of drugs on the human...

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June 18, 2007

What makes a movement seem "artificial"?

Category: Movement and exercisePerceptionResearch

This is a guest post by David Kerns, one of Greta's top student writers for Spring 2007. As movie special effects technology improves, more and more live-action shots are being replaced with computer animation. Harry Potter flies across the Quidditch...

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June 15, 2007

The Magic Touch: When vision lets you down

Category: PerceptionResearch

This is a guest post by Martina Mustroph, one of Greta's top student writers for Spring 2007. When you're typing, your senses of touch, hearing, and sight align. You feel, see, and hear your fingers touch the keyboard. Now imagine...

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June 14, 2007

When Forgetting Is Good: Control Reductions at Retrieval

Category: News

"What was your 6th birthday party like? "If you successfully retrieved that memory, you may now be ever so slightly less able to remember your other childhood birthdays. A variety of behavioral evidence has shown that such "retrieval induced forgetting"...

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June 13, 2007

Euro-update 3: Don't mess with perspective

Category: Fun and games

We've been in Rome for a few days now, and we've seen several wonderful examples of how Renaissance and Baroque artists were beginning to re-learn the lessons of perspective, which, if 20-year-old memory of art history class serves me, had...

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June 11, 2007

How much do we lose in black and white?

Category: ArtColor perceptionPerceptionResearch

This is a guest post by Suzie Eckl, one of Greta's top student writers for Spring 2007 Forget color television. Before we had color, we had black and white. Before we had movies, we had photographs. And before photographs we...

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June 8, 2007

Euro-update 2: Is science art?

Category: Opinion

We've spent an exciting week in Paris, seeing all the fabulous sites, from the Louvre to the Tour Eiffel. Today we decided to do something different and headed for the Georges Pompidou Center, where the national galleries of modern art...

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June 7, 2007

Human GPS: Some of us are better equipped than others (with movies!)

Category: MemoryPerceptionResearchVideo Games / Technology

This is a guest post by Daniel Griffin, one of Greta's top student writers for Spring 2007 How well do you think you can navigate through these woods? How about when your field of view is significantly reduced? When external...

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June 5, 2007

This side up: Perceiving visual orientation

Category: PerceptionResearch

This is a guest post by Aaron Couch, one of Greta's top student writers for Spring 2007 When looking out a window, or watching a movie in a theater, the image you see is typically presented as right-side-up. Let's say...

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