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kapilgoela123
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Growth Of Cognitive Science

GROWTH OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE Questions about the nature of mentality have been asked throughout human existence. How are ideas represented in the mind? Are different kinds of concepts stored in...

Started by kapilgoela123 (53) • 2 years ago • 0 responses
Tags: growth of cognitive science

bacardiblast_K
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Is Your Memory Failing?

In psychology, memory is an organism's ability to store, retain, and subsequently recall information. Although traditional studies of memory began in the realms of philosophy, the late nineteenth and...

Started by bacardiblast_K (700) • 4 responses • Last response by margieanneart (16928) • 2 years ago
Tags: information recall, memory, memory test

leotheking
(149)
Computer Hacking

What is a Hacker? In one sense it's silly to argue about the ``true'' meaning of a word. A word means whatever people use it to mean. I am not the Academies Françoise; I can't force Newsweek to use...

Started by leotheking (149) • 1 response • Last response by trsmurali (2950) • 2 years ago

whiteheather39
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DoYou Believe This?

Does this following article change your beliefs? Does it shake your faith?Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher Tue Mar 4, 7:02 AM ET JERUSALEM (AFP) - High on Mount Sinai, Moses was on...

Started by whiteheather39 (9990) in religion • 23 responses • Last response by BYOLA2871 (1411) • 5 months ago
Tags: belief, bible, drugs, moses, god
 

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Mixing Memory
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Language, Writing, and the Spatial Representation of Events

Picture in your head one person throwing a ball to another. How were the two people oriented spatially? Was one on the left, and the other on the right? If so, which one was on the left, and which on...

Started in Mixing Memory • 1 year ago • 0 responses
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Mixing Memory
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The Brain Makes It Better

About a year ago, there was an article in Seed Magazine titled "Seduced by the Flickering Lights of the Brain," in which Paul Bloom argued that people are too easily seduced by neuroscience,...

Started in Mixing Memory • 1 year ago • 0 responses
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Mixing Memory
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Thinking About Evolution (Slight Reprise)

A little over a year ago, I wrote a post describing some research showing that there are cognitive barriers to understanding evolution. There I listed three specific factors:Intuitive theism, in...

Started in Mixing Memory • 1 year ago • 0 responses
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Mixing Memory
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Mind Metaphors

Some of you who are interested in the history of psychology or philosophy of mind might find this paper interesting:Gentner, D., & Grudin, J. (1985). The evolution of mental metaphors in...

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Mixing Memory
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Does Ceiling Height Affect the Way You Think?

File this one in the annals of "huh?" There's been a lot of research over the last decade or so on what only be described as the bizarre implicit priming of social concepts. In a typical experiment,...

Started in Mixing Memory • 1 year ago • 0 responses
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Mixing Memory
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The Amazing Color Changing Card Trick

Cool video (via Bill Benzon over at The Valve: A bit more below the fold, but only after you watch the video. Read the rest of this post...| Read the comments on this post...

Started in Mixing Memory • 1 year ago • 0 responses
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Mixing Memory
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The Science of Goalkeeping

OK, this research is pretty silly, and quite frankly, I can't imagine what compelled the researchers to undertake it, but because it has to do with something I love, soccer, I feel compelled to blog...

Started in Mixing Memory • 1 year ago • 0 responses
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Mixing Memory
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How Bad Was Abu Ghraib? It Depends on the Comparison

I have to admit that I've been avoiding the "framing science" discussion that's been going on in the science blogosphere recently, mostly because I'd rather talk about what framing is and how it...

Started in Mixing Memory • 1 year ago • 0 responses
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Mixing Memory
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Cognition, Language, and Culture: Components Not Levels of Analysis

In the recent dust up over "framing science," there's been more hand waving than any actual discussion of, you know, framing. However, I was struck by one point that fellow ScienceBlogger Matt...

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Mixing Memory
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John Rawls and Cognitive Science

Some of you may find this book chapter interesting:Hauer, M.D., Young, L., & Cushman, F. (in press): Reviving Rawls' Linguistic Analogy: Operative principles and the causal structure of moral...

Started in Mixing Memory • 1 year ago • 0 responses
Tags: cognitive psychology