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Category: Miscellaneous
Happy New Year, wherever you are....
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December 31, 2006
Category: Miscellaneous
Happy New Year, wherever you are....
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Category: Philosophy
In lieu of an effortful post on cognitive science while I'm relaxing for the holidays, I thought I'd say a few things about religion and Dawkins again. If you hang around ScienceBlogs, you've probably noticed the spat between the two...
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December 21, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
I'm traveling today, so I'm posting something I wrote along time ago instead of offering anything new. This one's from the blogs early days, so I really hadn't gotten used to this blogging thing when I wrote it. Also, in...
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December 20, 2006
Category: Miscellaneous
More than a week ago, Razib wrote an unfortunate little post in which he displayed all sorts of poor judgment. Since it's short, I'm going to quote the entire post here, including his updates. The virginity thread generated a lot...
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Category: Cognitive Psychology
I'm going to be traveling tomorrow, so I'm spending today getting ready. Instead of a long post about research, I thought I'd link you to a paper Stephen E. G. Lea by in press at Behavioral and Brain Sciences. For...
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December 19, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
One of the more sophisticated theories in embodied cognition is Lawrence Barsalou's perceptual symbol systems theory (which I've talked about before, here). Starting from the premise that cognition is for action, it argues that concepts are represented in the same...
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December 18, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
A friend of mine and I were having a conversation today, and one of us (I don't remember who) brought up a poster that we'd seen at a conference a few years ago. Later, I wondered what had become of...
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December 16, 2006
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Congratulations to Pharyngula, winner of the 2006 Weblog Award for Best Science Blog. Congratulations to Bad Astronomy Blog for giving PZ a run for his money, too. I finished last, but given the fact that my traffic is much, much...
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Category: Philosophy
OK, the last two posts with quotes from philosophers were at least remotely relevant to recent discussions on this blog. These quotes will be completely irrelevant, but they've stuck with me since I first read them at least a decade...
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Category: Cognitive Psychology
Speaking of studies that make you go "wow," I recently read a very recent one that really surprised me, and thought I'd describe it here. Memory researchers are famous for coming up with different types of memory, sparking years of...
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