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June 30, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Ah, yes, a real game (kidding, Scrabble people). If you've watched many baseball games or baseball movies, you know that one of the things that makes for a successful hitter is the ability to predict what the next pitch will...
Posted by Chris at 9:54 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 29, 2007
Category: Politics
I know I've said this before, but I'm going to say it again. Anyone who reads the fundamentalist atheist blogs (you know, like the biggest blog on ScienceBlogs) knows that these people have a lot of passion and energy. They...
Posted by Chris at 6:15 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Statistics
So here's the first post on statistics. If you know the basics, and I suspect most of you do, then you can just ignore these posts (unless you want to check to make sure I'm getting it right). If you...
Posted by Chris at 10:44 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 28, 2007
I kid you not: Halpern, D.F., & Wai, J. (2007). The world of competitive Scrabble: Novice and expert differences in visuospatial and verbal vbilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 13(2), 79-94. Competitive Scrabble players spend a mean of 4.5 hr...
Posted by Chris at 3:56 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Blogs and Blogging
So the other day, I was talking to someone about one of the studies I was planning on posting about. I mentioned one of the results, and he said he'd really like to see the means and standard deviations. I...
Posted by Chris at 2:07 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 26, 2007
Category: Cognitive Development
It's now clear that by age 3, children have a pretty sophisticated theory of mind, which includes an understanding of the limits of the causal powers of thought. They know that thoughts cause behaviors and other thoughts, but they're also...
Posted by Chris at 9:03 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 25, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Picture in your head one person throwing a ball to another. How were the two people oriented spatially? Was one on the left, and the other on the right? If so, which one was on the left, and which on...
Posted by Chris at 9:27 AM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 24, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Jonathan Rowe, over at Positive Liberty, posted a link to Ophelia from The Last Waltz. Because I've been a fan of The Band since I was a little kid, I'm upping the ante, with "Carivan" with Van, the Man, who...
Posted by Chris at 3:00 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 22, 2007
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
All of you are probably familiar with color opponency, but just in case, I'll give you a quick refresher. I'll even start with the history. In the 19th century, there were two competing theories of color vision. The first was...
Posted by Chris at 4:12 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
June 18, 2007
Category: Cognitive Linguistics
In his comment to my post on conceptual metaphor theory (CMT), reposted here, Dr. Gibbs writes: The topic of why conceptual metaphor theory arouses such vehemence is one that greatly interests me and is again the subject of my in...
Posted by Chris at 5:11 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
