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Chris Chatham is a grad student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
December 29, 2006
While subjects are generally faster to respond to a stimulus if it is presented at a previously "cued" location, they are paradoxically slower to respond if the spatial "cue" occurred more than 300 ms beforehand. This strange phenomenon is known...
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December 28, 2006
"Working memory" refers to the cognitive processes involved in temporarily storing & manipulating information. Unsurprisingly, this capacity is correlated with many measures of intelligence, but (somewhat more surprisingly) is also impaired in a variety of neurological disorders, including schizophrenia. In...
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It looks like I'll be joining the bunch here at ScienceBlogs, so I thought I'd introduce myself. This blog is dedicated to tracking the development of intelligence in both natural and artificial systems. This means looking at intelligence, what it...
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