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Chris Chatham is a grad student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
August 27, 2007
Category: Developmental Psychology
In the Dimensional Change Card sorting (DCCS) task, 3-year-olds can usually sort cards successfully by a first rule - whether by shape, color, size, etc. When asked to switch then to another rule, most 3-year-olds will perseverate by continuing to...
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August 24, 2007
Category: Link Posts
A long story short... My PhD advisor, a developmental psychologist, recently had her first baby - unfortunately, this baby was born with the long-segment form of Hirschsprung's Disease. This means that Max has only 25 cm of ganglionated intestine; to...
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August 16, 2007
Category: Link Posts
Steve Grand, author of "Creation: Life and How to Make It" as well as a principal designer behind the groundbreaking artificial life game "Creatures", was recently interviewed over at MLU. It covers a smattering of topics: recent proposals for a...
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August 13, 2007
Category: Link Posts
What are the effects of prolonged boredom, for example as experienced by 17 months of interplanetary travel? This is the question investigated by a new European Space Agency project in which 12 volunteers will be locked in an isolation tank...
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August 7, 2007
Category: Link Posts
Having just returned from a 3 week vacation to purchase (and then move into) a new home, I am finally now able to get back to posting. Here's just a very small subset of the best in brain-blogging while I...
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