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October 22, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Belief in Evolutionary Psychology May Be Hardwired, Study Says. (Cartoon from here. And yes, French was spoken in the EEA.) In related news, a new study has determined that "cognitive linguistics" is just a metaphor for the way the...
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October 20, 2007
Category: Visual Illusions
From Anstis & Casco, 2006, Movie 1, p. 1088 OK, here's a really, really cool illusion published last year, and that I learned about only recently. To see it, go to Stuart Anstis' page here, watch the first movie...
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October 17, 2007
Category: Cognitive Psychology
There's a fair amount of evidence that spatial reasoning abilities and spatial attention are an important constituent of secondary math skills (basically everything after basic algebra)(1), and it stands to reason that secondary math skills are an important determinant of...
Posted by Chris at 11:14 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 16, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
The uproar surrounding Larry Summers' remarks on women in science and engineering, made almost three years ago (man, I'm getting old!) has died down, but the literature on social/environmental factors responsible, at least in part, for the large gender disparities...
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October 15, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
Offered without comment (and sorry, only available with subscription; maybe I'll say something more about it later), except to say, why the hell am I not doing stuff with video games? Bartlett, C.P., Harrisa, R.J., & Brueya, C. (In Press)....
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October 8, 2007
Category: Blogs and Blogging
At some point recently (I'm not sure exactly when, but in the last 2 weeks), Mixing Memory received its 500,000th visit. That's, like, a lot. A whole lot. I don't think I imagined getting even 5,000 when I started this...
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October 6, 2007
Category: Social Cognition
If you've been reading this blog for a while, you probably know that I'm fascinated by findings that show just how little we know about ourselves. Most of what's going on in our heads occurs below the level of awareness,...
Posted by Chris at 9:39 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 3, 2007
Category: Cognitive Development
I am deathly afraid of brown recluses like the one in the picture, the nasty little bugger. I never put on a pair of jeans without shaking them first, 'cause they like warm, dark places (and I know someone who...
Posted by Chris at 9:18 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Miscellaneous
These pictures aren't my own, but they're of the weird things I've seen lately. Coal Skink White Grackle This one was hanging out with about 5,000 (I shit you not) grackles of the normal black variety, so it stuck out...
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October 1, 2007
Category: Miscellaneous
Go over to OmniBrain, read about Donors Choose, and if you like what they're doing, give 'em some money....
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