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September 29, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
I know there are a few psychologists out there lurking around. This post is for you. I thought it might be interesting for some of you (all of you? any of you? hello, is this thing on?) to write a...
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September 28, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
This video is too cool not to post. Every commenter who knows why this happens, and can explain it, gets a cookie*. If no one chimes in, and you're curious about how this works, let me know and I'll explain...
Posted by Chris at 5:44 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 24, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Over at OmniBrain, Steve has a great summary of a recent article by Thomas and Lleras(1 on embodied cognition/perceptual symbol systems and problem solving. I recommend reading Steve's summary before going on with this post, but in case you're really...
Posted by Chris at 10:25 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 19, 2007
Category: Visual Illusions
Everybody knows the Margaret Thatcher Illusion. If you've forgotten about it, here's the best example I've found (from Schwaninger et al.1) Both the top and bottom pairs are the same photos, but they look very different depending on whether they're...
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September 18, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Why are so many people convinced that we only use 10% of our brains, or that Eskimos have n words for snow, where n is as high as you need it to be for the desired rhetorical effect? Or more...
Posted by Chris at 9:31 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
September 10, 2007
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
Reading an article in the LA Times today, I learned something exciting: political differences in thought happen in the brain. At least that's what a new study published in Nature Neuroscience(1) purports to show, though I hear that the next...
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