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March 29, 2008
Category: Cognitive Science News
You can see Josh Knobe, of Experimental Philosophy fame, and Paul Bloom, who doesn't have a blog but has one of them professorship things up at some podunk little school in New Haven, CT, talking about research in moral psychology...
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March 25, 2008
Just to show that there are no hard feelings between behaviorists and cognitive psychologists, we've created an R-W t-shirt: Here's the back: I don't know about you, but I think this t-shirt would be great for dates, parties, rock concerts,...
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March 24, 2008
Category: Politics
It would be a horrible cliché to begin a post about the reconstructive nature of autobiographical memory with a Proust quote, so instead I'll begin with something only slightly less cliché: beginning something about memory by talking about my own...
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March 21, 2008
Category: Miscellaneous
Recently, I saw a famous learning theorist -- perhaps one of the two most influential learning theorists in the last 40 or so years; if ΔV = αβ(λ - ΣV) means anything to you, you'll have narrowed it down to...
Posted by Chris at 3:51 PM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 20, 2008
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
You know, just the other day, on this very blog, I swore I would never read another (cognitive) imaging paper again, but between then and now, I've read 5 of 6, so apparently my oath didn't take. It's sort of...
Posted by Chris at 4:03 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 18, 2008
Category: Cognitive Psychology
OK, so where did this myth that feminists not only believe that there are no differences, across the population, between men and women, but also actively suppress scientific research that inevitably discovers such differences, come from? I mean, has anyone...
Posted by Chris at 11:31 AM • 17 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 16, 2008
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
That's it! I'm never reading another imaging paper again, ever. OK, I might read one or two, and I might even post about them, but for now I'm telling myself, for my own sanity, that I'm never, ever, under any...
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March 15, 2008
Category: Cognitive Psychology
I really do love illusions of all sorts, in large part because they fit nicely into my narrative about the fallibility of human thought, but illusions are also great as windows into the ordinary working of our brains. For example,...
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March 13, 2008
Because some people seem to be misinterpreting what I was saying in the last post, and even arguing against it by suggesting that I should have taken the position that I did, in fact, take, let me summarize my points...
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March 11, 2008
Category: Miscellaneous
Discussion of a paper titled "Respect and Religion," by Simon Blackburn, is making its way through the blogosphere, and sparking some interesting discussion (particularly over at Crooked Timber, but this is a good read too). The key quote from Blackburn's...
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