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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.
Category: Research
We've talked a lot on Cognitive Daily about change blindness: the inability to spot visual differences between images and even real people and objects right before our eyes. The most dramatic demonstration might be Daniel Simons' "experiment" that took place...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:09 PM • 5 Comments •
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 •
Category: Research
When school budgets are cut, programs in music and the arts are often the first to get axed. While this makes a certain amount of sense because music isn't always considered "essential" to education, recently in the U.S. we're starting...
Posted by Dave Munger at 3:21 PM • 15 Comments •
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...
Posted by Dave Munger at 5:15 PM • 9 Comments •
Category: Research
Last night in the U.S. many televisions were tuned to one of the biggest spectacles of the year: the American Idol finale, where America would learn which singer had been chosen as "America's favorite" (or, more cynically, who inspired the...
Posted by Dave Munger at 4:50 PM • 21 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 • 15 Comments •
Category: Research
The Mafa people, who live in the far north of Cameroon in the Mandara mountains, are one of the most culturally isolated groups in the world. Since many of their settlements lack electricity, there are some individuals who have never...
Posted by Dave Munger at 12:34 PM • 23 Comments •
Category: Research
As a young child, my family was poor and we had to go to a public clinic for dental work. Since we were being seen by dental students, often the process was painful and took much longer than it should...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:51 PM • 11 Comments •
Category: Research
It's now taken as a given that the musical score of a movie can have huge influence on our perception of the movie. From the pulsating terror achieved in films like Psycho and Jaws, to the triumphant victories in Star...
Posted by Dave Munger at 2:30 PM • 5 Comments •
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...
Posted by Dave Munger at 1:32 PM • 20 Comments •
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