Do Connectionists Wear Analog Watches?
Category: Miscellaneous
And am I the only one who thinks that's a funny question? Real posts to come when I have two spare moments....
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Miscellaneous Stuff
First, Seed is hosting a 500,000th Comment Contest, with a trip to "the greatest science city in the world," which you can vote on here. So be sure to vote and then comment a lot, preferably here at Mixing Memory....
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Do Women Have an Evolved Preference for Pink?
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Short answer, no. Duh. Long answer, man do I hate how psychology gets reported in the media. If you were surfing around news sites earlier this week, you might have come across something like this: A study in Current Biology...
Posted by Chris at 11:51 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 23, 2007
The Bailey Case
Category: Miscellaneous
Macht makes a good point, in noting that pro-science bloggers, who are quick to jump on any religious or Republican affront to science, have for the most part ignored the Michael Bailey case, largely, I suspect, because most of the...
Posted by Chris at 11:48 AM • 33 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2007
Meta-Tool Use and Analogical Reasoning in Crows?
Category: Comparative Psychology
Crows are smart. Really smart. But just how smart are they? Studying non-human primates, particularly gorillas, orangutans, and chimpanzees, researchers have shown that they're capable of what's called meta-tool use, or using one tool with another tool (I've mostly seen...
Posted by Chris at 12:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 16, 2007
Folk Meta-Ethics
Category: Cognitive Psychology
There's a really interesting paper by Geoffrey Goodwin and John Darley in press at the journal Cognition on the subject of lay meta-ethics, and ethical objectivism specifically. That is, the paper explores the question, "How do lay individuals think about...
Posted by Chris at 8:54 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 14, 2007
Called Strikes and Race: Et tu, Baseball?
Category: Social Cognition
A few months ago, I posted about a study showing implicit racial bias in NBA referees' calls. Now it's baseball's turn, because yesterday reports of study by Parsons et al.1 that shows analogous results for home plate umpires began popping...
Posted by Chris at 2:59 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 10, 2007
Question for the Linguists/Psycholinguists in the House
Category: Miscellaneous
Does anyone around here know of a program or programs that can do the following things with text: Frequency counts for parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.). Sort or score words/phrases based on how abstract or concrete they are....
Posted by Chris at 3:59 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Cognitive Science Tattoos
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Over at his blog The Loom, Carl Zimmer asked people to send him photos of their science-related tattoos. So far, it appears that only one (here) is cog sci related. Anyone else out there have a cog sci-related tattoo?...
Posted by Chris at 12:21 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 9, 2007
Qualitative Physics and Qualitative Politics(?)
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Over at one of her other blogospheric homes, Channel N, fellow ScienceBlogger has posted a link to a great talk on modeling qualitative physics by Ken Forbus. It was one of the earliest of the Cognitive Science Society's virtual colloquia,...
Posted by Chris at 11:30 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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