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Cognitive Daily

A new cognitive psychology article nearly every day

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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 editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.

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Liveblogging the Pi Day Pizza

Category: Fun and games

In honor of Pi Day, Greta is baking one of our favorite Chicago-style pizzas. This is our reconstruction of the pizza we ate as undergraduates at the University of Chicago. We spent a lot of time hanging out at a...

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Are Cognitive Daily readers slackers compared to Slashdotters?

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Today's Slashdot poll covers some of the same territory as this week's Casual Fridays study. Their poll asks "How Many Hours Of Work Do You Do Per Workday?" We asked two questions that get at the same concept: How much...

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What brain games do you like?

Category: Fun and games

There's a fair bit of evidence that playing games can enhance your cognitive ability and prevent decline as we age. Or at least that's the excuse I use when I take a few minutes off during the course of the...

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Preview poll for today's post

Category: Fun and games

Think about an angry face. Make a picture of it in your mind. Then, answer the poll below....

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What's wrong with this magazine cover?

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The current issue of WIRED reveals an interesting quirk of the human perceptual system: Can you spot what's wrong?...

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What's better for heating a mug of water: The stove or the microwave?

Category: Fun and games

I know CogDaily is supposed to be a psychology web site, but sometimes, you have a question you simply must know the answer to. I frequently need to boil a mug of water, and I've often wondered what the most...

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Are CogDaily readers more rational than Slashdotters?

Category: Fun and games

Yesterday's post offered a simple poll question: # How Many People Will Select The Same Option As You? 0% 1-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-99% 100% I didn't think this poll would attract as much interest as it did because in one...

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Very cool poll at slashdot

Category: Fun and games

Slashdot's poll of the moment is just fantastic, combining psychology and reasoning in a very cool way. Here's the question: # How Many People Will Select The Same Option As You? 0% 1-25% 26-50% 51-75% 76-99% 100% Just CowboyNeal [this...

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One more try with the internal clock demo

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Yesterday's demonstration about perception of tempo simply didn't work. If we had successfully replicated Schultze's Vos et al.'s study, we would have seen a systematic bias in the results. I'd like to give this one more shot (I promise this...

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Optical illusions!

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Here are a few neat optical illusions. 1. Multi-colored X? (via Grand Illusions) It appears that the X is two different colors, but it's actually made using just one shade of pink. (more below)...

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