Multitaskers Better at Spotting ‘Invisible Gorilla’
Eat your heart out, Houdini. Average schmoes can make a gorilla-suited dude pounding his chest go poof, thanks in part to a common difficulty with focusing on distractions. [partner id=”sciencenews”...
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The QWERTY Effect: How Typing May Shape the Meaning of Words
A keyboard's arrangement could have a small but significant impact to how we perceive the meaning of words we type. The post The QWERTY Effect: How Typing May Shape the Meaning of Words appeared first...
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MIT’s Sebastian Seung Wants Computers to Map the Brain
Connecting the dots between the human brain's 100 billion neurons could lead to a better understanding of personality and pathologies. The post MIT’s Sebastian Seung Wants Computers to Map the Brain...
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The Beauty of Non-Objects
We all know what objects are: they are things, stuff we can identify. But what about non-objects? What does that even mean? In a great paper from 1984, two psychologists set out to explore this bizarre...
View ArticleIs Cognitive Science Full of Crap?
[Note 5/24/12: I’m away from the desk this week. This post originally ran on February 28, 2011, and stirred a lot of online discussion; still fully current, and I suspect will be so for a while.] Is...
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Book Excerpt: Why We Blame God for Our Problems
Read an excerpt about why people tend to blame god for their problems from the new book The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking by science writer Matthew Hutson. The post Book Excerpt: Why We Blame God for Our...
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Q&A: Why It’s Sometimes Rational to Be Irrational
In his new book, The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking, science writer Matthew Hutson argues that we're all believers -- even the staunchest of skeptics. The post Q&A: Why It’s Sometimes Rational to Be...
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Many Neuroscience Studies May Be Based on Bad Statistics
The fields of psychology and cognitive neuroscience have had some rough sledding in recent years. The bumps have come from high-profile fraudsters, concerns about findings that can't be replicated, and...
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What’s Up With That: Why Does Your Dog Seem to Know What Time It Is?
It’s five o’clock, and your dog is excitedly wagging her tail and nuzzling against you. Your furry friend is hungry and seems to know that this is the hour you usually feed her. But was this...
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Big Question: Is Speed Reading Actually Possible?
Some people say they can read more than a thousand words per minute. But are they really understanding all that? The post Big Question: Is Speed Reading Actually Possible? appeared first on WIRED.
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