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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 editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.
August 28, 2009
Category: Casual Fridays
Greta and I are back from a busy summer, the school year has started, and today's high temperature here in North Carolina will only be in the 70s! I can actually wear long pants again. You know what that means:...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:52 PM • 58 Comments •
August 27, 2009
Category: Research
One of the most exciting moments of my junior-high-school career was stepping into my first-ever foreign-language classroom. While foreign language studies had a reputation for being tedious, I was nonetheless thrilled at the idea of being able to communicate with...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:11 PM • 23 Comments •
August 26, 2009
Category: In other news
In case you missed them, here are my selections from the psychology and neuroscience posts on ResearchBlogging.org for the past week: Confronted with fake video evidence, nearly everyone confesses. In a simulated "crime," researchers were able to induce false confessions...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:08 PM • 1 Comments •
August 25, 2009
Category: Research
Take a look at the following picture: Your job is to look for the one line that's either perfectly horizontal or perfectly vertical. It took me about 25 seconds to find it. Can you do better? How about now? A...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:41 PM • 5 Comments •
August 20, 2009
Category: Research
We've discussed attentional blink several times on CogDaily. It's a fascinating phenomenon: if you see a series of images flashing by rapidly, you can normally pick out one of the images (for example, a banana in series of pictures of...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:50 AM • 1 Comments •
August 19, 2009
Category: In other news
In case you missed them, these are my picks from ResearchBlogging.org's psychology and neuroscience categories. Neat stuff! Neurological basis for desire for amputation. This post explains why some people have a seemingly rational desire for a healthy limb to be...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:36 PM • 0 Comments •
August 18, 2009
Category: Research
[This post was originally published in September, 2007] Here's a task that four-year-olds can do but three-year-olds have some trouble with. Imagine Sally in the picture below is playing with a ball. She puts the ball in the box and...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:59 PM • 18 Comments •
August 13, 2009
Category: Research
Take a look at these photos of Jim and Nora: They've clearly been distorted (using the "spherize" filter in Photoshop), but in opposite directions. Jim's been "expanded" to make more spherical, while Nora has been "contracted" to look more concave....
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:36 PM • 15 Comments •
August 12, 2009
Category: In other news
Over at Seedmagazine.com, my new column "Research Blogging" debuted today. Every Wednesday I'll be discussing what's new in the research blogosphere, and this week I cover a fascinating post by Jeremy Yoder about lactose tolerance in adults. Here's a sample:...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:39 PM • 9 Comments •
August 11, 2009
Category: Research
Last year Nora and I went on a hike in the remote Pasayten Wilderness in northern Washington state. Parts of the hike were extremely grueling, while other parts were quite easy and fun. I made this short video to try...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:15 PM • 13 Comments •
