Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week:
- In a post that is sure to stir up some controversy, The Neurocritic discusses a recent paper that failed to find an association between personality (which appears to be highly heritable) and specific genes.
- Dr. Dan Simons of the Invisible Gorilla blog writes about a pervasive cognitive illusion in which "we easily mistake surface understanding for deep understanding" - the illusion of knowledge.
- When it comes to language acquisition, is the mind more like a spreadsheet or a search engine? Melody Dye of Child's Play offers some thoughts.
- Ever wanted to know what its like to pee in space? Let Scicurious, of Neurotic Physiology, explain.
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Last week's Casual Friday study was inspired by a recently-discovered illusion which showed that sound could influence what people percieve visually.
If you're like many regulars to ScienceBlogs you probably found the cool Purple Nurple optical illusion over at Omni Brain.
Photo: Edmund E. Kasaitis.