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June 30, 2008

The Political Mind, Part I (Introduction)

Category: Frame Analysis

Well, I've got Lakoff's new book, The Political Mind, and I've read the first few chapters, so I figured I'd start sharing my thoughts about them. For now, I'll do it on a chapter by chapter basis, which makes sense,...

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June 28, 2008

"Psychological essentialism in selecting the 14th Dalai Lama"

Category: Cognitive Psychology

There's an interesting short paper by Paul Bloom and Susan Gelman in the July issue of Trends in Cognitive Science with that title. Unfortunately, it's not yet available without a subscription (though Bloom tends to put his papers on his...

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June 24, 2008

The War and Peace Phenomenon

Category: Miscellaneous

Here's a little tidbit from my personal life that I thought I'd share, because I find it pretty amusing. I've always ridden the bus to work, because as anyone who's spent time on a college campus knows, it's impossible to...

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June 23, 2008

Cool Visual Illusions: The "Ghostly Gaze" Illusion

Category: Visual Illusions

UPDATE: I've messed with some of the images below the fold, which will hopefully make it easier for people to see the illusion without having to move all round the room. Last year, Rob Jenkins published a seriously spooky-looking illusion...

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June 22, 2008

Lakoff in the NYT

Category: Frame Analysis

There's a review of George Lakoff's new book, The Political Mind, in today's New York Times. You can read the review here. Some key excerpts: Neuroscience shows that pure facts are a myth and that self-interest is a conservative idea....

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June 19, 2008

Best Mirror Neuron Comment Ever

Category: Miscellaneous

Hahahahaha!!! From the comment section to this post: HULK SEE MOVIE, HULK LIKE SMASH THINGS, HULK F5 NEURONS EXHIBIT ABOVE-BASELINE BOLD ACTIVITY....

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Sex = Mirror Neurons!

Category: Cognitive Neuroscience

We already know that mirror neurons are responsible for social interaction (except when they're not), meaning, art, religion, sports, dinosaurs, sun spots, Marxism, post-it notes, freeze-dried fruit, Harleys, and and Firefox 3.0, so it's not at all surprising that we're...

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June 18, 2008

Brain Activity and Meaning

Category: Cognitive Neuroscience

Blogs and the mainstream media have been filled with neuroscience news lately. First we learned that sarcasm happens in the brain, and then that sexual orientation is in the brain too. There was even an attempt (sarcastic, I hope) to...

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June 16, 2008

Cool Visual Illusions: Rotating Eyes on Inverted Faces

Category: Visual Illusions

One of my favorite optical illusions is the rotating face, an instance of depth inversion. I like it so much that I sometimes use the above image as my avatar around the web. If you're not familiar with the...

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June 11, 2008

This Kid Rocks!

Category: Miscellaneous

If you're a depressed liberal and need to read something uplifting and inspiring, check out this profile of Adam Bender (pictured below), a great little league catcher who happens to have only one leg. Be sure to watch the video!...

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Conservatives are Happier than Liberals Because...

Category: Social Cognition

"They only care about themselves," "They're out of touch with reality," "They don't become academics." These are just some of the answers people yelled at me yesterday when I read out loud the title of a paper in the...

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June 9, 2008

Cool Visual Illusions: Freaky Filled In Afterimages

Category: Visual Illusions

I love afterimages and aftereffects, so I was excited to see that the 2008 winner for Best Illusion of the Year is a new afterimage illusion. To see the illusion for your self, watch this sequence of images for about...

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June 5, 2008

"No disease in the brain of a 115-year-old woman"

Category: Research & Theory

This morning, while I was riding the bus to campus, I checked my email on my phone (man, I love that thing), and had a cognitive psychology topic alert from ScienceDirect. There were only three papers in the alert, but...

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