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Greta Munger is Professor of Psychology at Davidson College whose works include The History of Psychology: Fundamental Questions. Dave Munger now writes at The Daily Monthly. He is co-founder and editor of ResearchBlogging.org and a columnist on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM. And yes, he is married to Greta.
Category: Research
We've discussed synesthesia many times before on Cognitive Daily -- it's the seemingly bizarre phenomenon when one stimulus (e.g. a sight or a sound) is experienced in multiple modalities (e.g. taste, vision, or colors). For example, a person might experience...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:05 PM • 13 Comments •
Category: Research
[Originally published in January, 2006] Clicking on the image below will take you to a short Quicktime movie. Make sure you have your sound turned up, because I've recorded a few sentences that play along with the movie. Your job...
Posted by Dave Munger at 10:18 AM • 10 Comments •
Category: Research
I attended an unusual middle school. It was designed on an "open concept," with the idea that there should be no walls between classrooms. Social pressure would keep the noise levels down, because if kids got too loud, then their...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:15 PM • 3 Comments •
Category: Research
Classical Indian dancing is a tradition that extends back 2,000 years. Unlike much Western dance, it is intended to express specific emotions and tell detailed stories. The Natyasastra, a text from the first or second century A.D., offers instructions for...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:22 PM • 9 Comments •
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 • 24 Comments •
Category: Research
I've always been amazed by people who are truly bilingual. While I've studied languages in school, I've never been able to seamlessly switch between languages, and even my best non-English language, French, is choppy at best. Compare this to the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:01 PM • 27 Comments •
Category: Research
Take a look at this video. Your job: decide which person speaks first: Click to view Video 1 (QuickTime required) Let's make this a poll: Which person in Video 1 speaks first?(web poll) Now, try another one. Once again, decide...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:34 PM • 8 Comments •
Category: Research
If, like me, you grew up in the U.S. in the 1970s and 80s, you probably remember the game show Name That Tune, where contestants heard brief snippets from popular songs and had to name them as quickly as possible....
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:25 PM • 16 Comments •
Category: Research
The SNARC effect is a fascinating phenomenon (and no, it has nothing to do with cheeky one-off blog posts). When asked to recognize numbers, people react faster with their left hand for low numbers, and faster with their right hand...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:01 PM • 18 Comments •
Category: Research
I was a member of my high school debate team, and I did fairly well, but my partner, Glenn, always got better marks from the judges. Most often, they praised his hand gestures, which were proclaimed to be "expressive" and...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:27 PM • 6 Comments •
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