Now on ScienceBlogs: And so, driven on ceaselessly toward new shores

Seed Media Group

Cognitive Daily

A new cognitive psychology article nearly every day

Profile

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.

Recent Comments

Search

Categories

Archives

Blogs

Other links

Participate in research

Other Information

Movement and exercise:

Can Westerners understand emotions from a remote culture?

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...

Read on »

Could physical exercise help in preventing and treating drug abuse?

Category: Research

Teens who routinely exercise (especially in organized activities like team sports) are less likely to smoke or abuse drugs or alcohol. This fact alone might make it seem like a no-brainer to include physical activities in substance-abuse prevention and treatment...

Read on »

Maps, directions, and video games: A model for how we perceive them

Category: Research

[Originally posted January, 2007] Nearly all video games that offer a first-person perspective -- where the view on-screen simulates what a real person would see as she navigates through the virtual environment -- also include a virtual map to help...

Read on »

Musical SNARC: Do we have a musical scale in our heads?

Category: Research

There's lots of research suggesting that we may have something like a "number line" in our head: The SNARC effect says that if you normally read numbers from left to right, you're faster to react to small numbers with your...

Read on »

How to make an effective computerized imitation of a real person

Category: Research

Take a look at this video: You may have seen it before -- it's the work of a CGI animation studio that takes the motions of human actors and turns them into animated models, giving them the ability to put...

Read on »

A simple toy, and what it says about how we learn to mentally rotate objects

Category: Research

One of Jimmy's favorite toys as a toddler was a simple little bucket of blocks. There were three shapes: a rectangular prism, a triangular prism, and a cylinder. The bucket's lid had three holes: a square, a triangle, and a...

Read on »

What conductors are doing when they wave their hands around -- and what we get out of it

Category: Research

As a child (and like most children, I imagine) I used to think conducting an orchestra entailed something like what Bugs Bunny does in this video: Waving the hands, as conductors frequently do, seemed largely for show. The conductor appeared...

Read on »

Tracking the location of objects in your mind: It depends on what you believe

Category: Research

Imagine yourself in a room surrounded by eleven objects arranged in a circle. You memorize the position of the objects, then you close your eyes, and rotate a third of the way around (120°). Keeping your eyes closed, can you...

Read on »

Insight into how we tell whether something's alive

Category: Research

Take a look at these three pictures. Can you tell which is a human, which is a cat, and which is a pigeon? How about these three pictures? A little easier? It would be even easier, of course, if the...

Read on »

Body position affects memory for events

Category: Research

This article was originally posted on March 27, 2007 When we see a familiar face, or even a photo of a favorite car or pet, we're often flooded with memories from our past. Sometimes just seeing a person or object...

Read on »

ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Follow ScienceBlogs on Twitter
Visit the Collective Imagination blog
Advertisement
Enter to win

© 2006-2009 Seed Media Group LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Seed Media Group. All rights reserved.

Sites by Seed Media Group: Seed Media Group | ScienceBlogs | SEEDMAGAZINE.COM