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Category: Cognitive Psychology
I've been meaning to post about this set of studies for a while, but because it's relevant to Chapter 4 of Lakoff's The Political Mind, I figured I'd better get around to it before I write the review of that...
Posted by Chris at 9:05 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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...
Posted by Chris at 6:02 PM • 14 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Comparative Psychology
Got your attention, right? That's the title of a paper by Penn, Holyoak, and Povinelli in April's Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Well, the full title is "Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds." Here's the abstract: Over...
Posted by Chris at 6:46 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Psychology
Interesting (and short) video of a talk by Joshua Klein (via HENRY) on how smart crows are, and how we might use their intelligence:...
Posted by Chris at 4:44 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Neuroscience
Last month, a paper was published in Nature, in which Kay et al(1) were able to guess which of their stimuli a person was seeing by looking at their fMRI scans. The model looked something like this (from Kay et...
Posted by Chris at 5:40 PM • 24 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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
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
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,...
Posted by Chris at 5:00 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Psychology
One of the criticisms of most false memory research is that it lacks ecological validity. For example, in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) paradigm, a common method for inducing false memories in the lab, involves giving participants a bunch of words (e.g.,...
Posted by Chris at 7:37 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Cognitive Psychology
In case you haven't seen it already, there's an article on the embodied cognition "revolution" in the Boston Globe. This, I think, is the best point to take away from it: "I think these findings are really fantastic and it's...
Posted by Chris at 9:29 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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