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October 31, 2006
Category: Blogs and Blogging
OK, so apparently there's a blogging scholarship, and it just so happens that someone who comments here at Mixing Memory, Jennifer Wong of Cyberspace Rendezvous, is a finalist, as is fellow Science Blogger Shelley Batts. You should go vote for...
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Category: Miscellaneous
Via Amy Perfors at the Harvard statistics blog, Social Science Statistics Blog, I learned of the Jeffrey-Lindley Paradox in statistics. The paradox is that if you have a sample large enough, you can get p-values that are very close to...
Posted by Chris at 2:58 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 30, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
As I said yesterday, I love research that challenges the common sense view that perception, especially visual perception, represents the world as it "is." The paper I talked about there showed cognitive influences (memory) on relatively low-level visual processes (color...
Posted by Chris at 9:13 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2006
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
One of the things that I love the most about cognitive science is that it's always challenging our intuitions about the world and how we perceive it. Think, for example, of all the classic Gestalt illusions, such as my all...
Posted by Chris at 12:39 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 28, 2006
Category: Visual Illusions
You may have seen this illusion in a post from earlier in the week over at Cognitive Daily, but I thought I'd say a little bit more about it, and talk about a related illusion. First, click play (from Sham's...
Posted by Chris at 9:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Philosophy
There's a really interesting post by Alberto over at Alpha Psy titled "Methodological Materialism" that I thought I'd point you to, in case you hadn't read it already. Here's an excerpt: As I see things, there is no deeper epistemological...
Posted by Chris at 12:40 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 27, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
By now you've probably heard about the Dar-Nimrod and Heine study on stereotype threat and math performance in women. If you're interested in learning more about that study, check out Hugo's post at Alpha Psy. Since Hugo did such a...
Posted by Chris at 11:34 AM • 3 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
October 26, 2006
Category: Frame Analysis
Just to let you know where things stand, I'm in the process of setting up the study. Some of the coding is a bit over my head, because I've never done this sort of thing on the web before. Fellow...
Posted by Chris at 9:16 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 25, 2006
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
Everyone's heard that losing a particular sensory modality causes the sensitivity of the other modalities to be heightened. Blind people are supposed to hear and smell really, really well, for example. While this is something that's been talked about for...
Posted by Chris at 3:45 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 24, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
OK, the initial response to my quesitons about the internet study was overwhelmingly positive, so I'm going to go ahead with it. I just need one more thing from you. Ordinarily with a study like this, I would run a...
Posted by Chris at 9:28 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
