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Cognitive Science Celebrities
Writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science, and critics and observers of the philosophy of mind.
cogsci 
may 2010 by jtth
Cognitive Science's top 100
They've done it for novels, movies, and who knows what else! And now, with your help, we have compiled a list of the 100 most influential works in cognitive science from the 20th century.
Here's how we did it:

We asked everyone to send nominations to us via this web site. Nominations closed on December 1st 1999. In total, 305 scholarly works and one movie were nominated. We appointed an esteemed panel of experts to evaluate these nominations and to arrived at the rank-ordered list of the top one hundred entries.

Now you can:

View the list of nominations
See which papers almost made it onto the top 100 list.
View the top 100 works
Professors, would your students like to be quizzed on these works in their qualifying exams? Students, ask your professors how many of these works they've actually read
We invite you to send us your comments, thoughts, and opinions, on the nominations and the final list.
cogsci 
april 2010 by jtth
Soar : Home
Soar is a general cognitive architecture for developing systems that exhibit intelligent behavior. Researchers all over the world are using Soar.
ai  programming  cogsci 
january 2010 by jtth
Laboratory for Developmental Studies
Elizabeth S. Spelke
Department of Psychology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone: 617-495-3876
Fax: 617-384-7944
academia  psychology  cogsci  professor 
january 2010 by jtth
Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study | cxpartners
How people read popular and common websites and layouts.
ux  ui  hci  hcid  cogsci 
november 2009 by jtth
The Encultured Brain: Why Neuroanthropology? Why Now? « Neuroanthropology
Neuroanthropology places the brain and nervous system at the center of discussions about human nature, recognizing that much of what makes us distinctive inheres in the size, specialization, and dynamic openness of the human nervous system. By starting with neural physiology and its variability, neuroanthropology situates itself from the beginning in the interaction of nature and culture, the inextricable interweaving of developmental unfolding and evolutionary endowment.
neuroanthropology  cogsci  article  introduction 
october 2009 by jtth
mental_floss Blog » We See With the Eyes, But We See With the Brain as Well…
“We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well, and seeing with the brain is often called ‘imagination,’ and we are familiar with the landscapes of our own imagination, our ‘inscapes,’ we’ve lived with them all our lives. But there are also hallucinations as well, and hallucinations are completely different…they seem to come from the outside, and to mimic perception.” With those words, world-famous neurologist Oliver Sacks begins a fascinating twenty-minute talk on hallucination, which you can watch in its entirety below. Sacks is well-known for his work in neurology, and you’ve probably seen the movie Awakenings (starring Robin WIlliams as a character based on Sacks) — that film was based on the true story of how Sacks discovered how to revive catatonic patients with a new drug called L-Dopa. Anyway, back to today’s Sacks talk.Discussed: visual hallucinations among the visually impaired, hallucinations as “a rather boring movie,” Charles Bonnett syndrome, handsome young men
hallucination  oliversacks  video  ted  brain  cogsci 
september 2009 by jtth
Test My Brain
Test yourself and help us learn more about the mind and brain.
psychology  brain  memory  games  fun  tests  test  health  cogsci 
june 2009 by jtth
The Institute of Cognitive Science
The Institute of Cognitive Science (ICS) at CU-Boulder has gained an international reputation for its promotion of interdisciplinary research and training in cognitive science. The institute is known for theory development and the application of those theories to real-world problems. The institute also houses four research centers, the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design (L3D), the Center for Computational Language and Education Research (CLEAR), the Center for Research on Training (CRT), and the Interdisciplinary Behavioral Science Center on the Determinants of Executive Function and Dysfunction (DEFD).
ai  cognitive  cogsci  science  university  boulder 
june 2009 by jtth
Psychonomic Symposium
As cognitive modeling continues to grow in popularity, it is important that cognitive psychologists in general and future modelers in particular, entertain this question. Answers are difficult to come by in the literature. Equally scarce are discussions of why one style of modeling might be chosen over another (mathematical vs. connectionist). The purpose of this symposium is to stimulate public discourse on the topic by having researchers familiar with both modeling and experimentation present their views, thereby highlighting the similarities and differences between styles of modeling. Three researchers (Shiffrin, Plaut, Batchelder) will provide answers to a common set of questions in the context of their style of modeling:
cogsci  modeling  psychology  conference  symposium 
may 2009 by jtth
Electrical stimulation produces feelings of free will : Not Exactly Rocket Science
Nerves in the limb send messages back to your brain, but the subjective experience you have of stretching isn't due to these signals. The feeling that you willed your arm into motion, and the realisation that you moved it at all, are both the result of an area at the back of your brain called the posterior parietal cortex. This region helped to produce the intention to move, and predicted what the movement would feel like, all before you twitched a single muscle.
psychology  article  cogsci  neuroscience  philosophy  mind  study  freewill  philosophyofmind 
may 2009 by jtth
Findings - Ear Plugs to Lasers - The Science of Concentration - NYTimes.com
The book’s theme, which Ms. Gallagher chose after she learned she had an especially nasty form of cancer, is borrowed from the psychologist William James: “My experience is what I agree to attend to.” You can lead a miserable life by obsessing on problems. You can drive yourself crazy trying to multitask and answer every e-mail message instantly.
psychology  science  nytimes  cogsci  happiness  training  personal  concentration 
may 2009 by jtth
Marginal Revolution: Can people distinguish pâté from dog food?
Considering the similarity of its ingredients, canned dog food could be a suitable and inexpensive substitute for pâté or processed blended meat products such as Spam or liverwurst. However, the social stigma associated with the human consumption of pet food makes an unbiased comparison challenging. To prevent bias, Newman's Own dog food was prepared with a food processor to have the texture and appearance of a liver mousse. In a double-blind test, subjects were presented with five unlabeled blended meat products, one of which was the prepared dog food. After ranking the samples on the basis of taste, subjects were challenged to identify which of the five was dog food. Although 72% of subjects ranked the dog food as the worst of the five samples in terms of taste (Newell and MacFarlane multiple comparison, P<0.05), subjects were not better than random at correctly identifying the dog food.
food  psychology  cogsci  paper  pdf  study  choice 
may 2009 by jtth
Auditory Illusion
A very good question, indeed. Did you notice that the tones played by the keys sound sort of funny? They are computer-generated tones that are a mix of different pure tones. The frequencies of the tones that you will hear as a note "C" are as follows (actually, they are a tiny bit different from this, but we chose this set of numbers because the math was easy for someone who does a lot of computer stuff):
psychology  cogsci  sound  perception 
may 2009 by jtth
Magic and the Brain: Teller Reveals the Neuroscience of Illusion
Now that on-the-job experimentation has taken an academic turn. A couple of years ago, Teller joined a coterie of illusionists and tricksters recruited by Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde, researchers at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, to look at the neuroscience of magic. Last summer, that work culminated in an article for the journal Nature Reviews Neuroscience called "Attention and Awareness in Stage Magic." Teller was one of the coauthors, and its publication was a signal event in a field some researchers are calling magicology, the mining of stage illusions for insights into brain function.
video  psychology  science  cogsci  neuroscience  wired  brain  illusion  magic 
april 2009 by jtth
IU's Hofstadter among elite group named 2009 Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows: IU News Room: Indiana University
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Pulitzer Prize winning author and Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science Douglas Hofstadter has been elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
article  cogsci  hofstadter  aaas  award  pressrelease 
april 2009 by jtth
etalog: Psychology research with Mechanical Turk
With Mechanical Turk, it's possible to do in one shot a study that would otherwise require a meta-analysis of several studies across particular locations or demographics. With more consistent data and larger populations, data can be reusable.
psychology  cogsci  mechanicalturk  amazon  study  analysis  idea  blog  article 
april 2009 by jtth
Ed Vul - Crowd within
Some interesting cognitive psychology: We know that if two people guess the answer to a trivia question (How many people live in New York), the average of their answer is more accurate than either answer alone. What if one person guesses twice? Same thing!
cogsci  cognitive_science  cognitive  psychology  cogpsych  edvul 
february 2009 by jtth
Voodoo Correlations: Have the Results of Some Brain Scanning Experiments Been Overstated?: Scientific American
VUL: We use that term as a humorous way to describe mysteriously high correlations produced by complicated statistical methods (which usually were never clearly described in the scientific papers we examined)—and which turn out unfortunately to yield some very misleading results. The specific issue we focus on, which is responsible for a great many mysterious correlations, is something we call “non-independent” testing and measurement of correlations. Basically, this involves inadvertently cherry-picking data and it results in inflated estimates of correlations.
sciam  article  neuroscience  cogsci  science  method  fmri  mri  paper  voodoo  statistics 
february 2009 by jtth
Intentional action and Asperger Syndrome | Psychology Today Blogs
Try it for yourself. My perception of intentionality isn't 'normal.'
science  aspergers  autism  research  article  brain  cogsci  judgement 
november 2008 by jtth
Researchers link cocoa flavanols to improved brain blood flow
In a scientific study of healthy, older adults ages 59 to 83, Harvard medical scientists found that study participants who regularly drank a cocoa flavanol-rich beverage made using the Mars, Incorporated Cocoapro® process had an eight percent increase in brain blood flow after one week, and 10 percent increase after two weeks.
cogsci  cocoa  chocolate  research  2008  study  brain  blood 
august 2008 by jtth
Overcoming Bias: Planning Fallacy
So there is a fairly reliable way to fix the planning fallacy, if you're doing something broadly similar to a reference class of previous projects. Just ask how long similar projects have taken in the past, without considering any of the special propertie
planning  psychology  cognitive  science  cogsci  blog  article 
june 2008 by jtth
Mind Control by Cell Phone: Scientific American
The data showed that when the cell phone was transmitting, the power of a characteristic brain-wave pattern called alpha waves in the person's brain was boosted significantly. The increased alpha wave activity was greatest in brain tissue directly beneat
cellphone  eeg  cognitive_science  cogsci  study  article  brain 
may 2008 by jtth
Journal of Machine Learning Research Homepage
The Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) provides an international forum for the electronic and paper publication of high-quality scholarly articles in all areas of machine learning. All published papers are freely available online. (linked via htt
machine  learning  machine_learning  ai  artificial  intelligence  cognitive  science  cogsci  journal  research  academia 
april 2008 by jtth
Picture-sorting dogs show human-like thought - life - 06 December 2007 - New Scientist
In the training phase, four dogs were simultaneously shown photographs of a landscape and of a dog, and were rewarded if they selected the latter using a paw-operated computer touch-screen. When the computer-savvy dogs were shown unfamiliar landscape and
biology  dogs  animals  Psychology  pets  image  evolution  dog  cogsci  cognitive  science  animal  behavior  animalbehavior 
december 2007 by jtth
WolfeLab
Enormous free dataset for a visual search task. Over 80,000 trials! Free!
cogsci  visual  search  cognitive  science  dataset  data  free 
december 2007 by jtth
Denial - Psychology - Mental Health and Behavior - New York Times
The capacity for denial appears to have evolved in part to offset early humans’ hypersensitivity to violations of trust. In small kin groups, identifying liars and two-faced cheats was a matter of survival. A few bad rumors could mean a loss of status o
psychology  cogsci  article  nytimes 
november 2007 by jtth
Researchers Create Robot Driven by Moth's Brain
In a notion taken from science fiction afficionados, University of Arizona researchers presented a robot that moves by using the brain impulses of a moth at the 37th annual Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.
cogsci  neuroscience  robotics  science  research  mind  brain  robot  robots  moth  moths 
november 2007 by jtth
Research shows the brain's processing speed is significantly faster than real time
The brain uses this biological trick because there is no way for all of its neurons to connect with and interact with every other neuron. It is still an expensive task for the hippocampus to make all of those connections. The retrieval tags the hippocampu
brain  cogsci  neuroscience  memory  learning 
november 2007 by jtth
Visions From LSD Psychotherapy
The following pages contain examples of artwork created by patients and experimental subjects, from the book LSD Psychotherapy by Stanislav Grof MD, published by Hunter House (Pomona: 1980 / ISBN: 0 89793 008 8).
lsd  psychotherapy  psychology  cogsci 
november 2007 by jtth
George Alvarez - Vision Demonstrations
How many moving objects can you keep track of? This demonstration illustrates that it depends on how fast the objects are moving.
cogsci  vision  perception  tracking  motion 
november 2007 by jtth
New Brain Cells Listen Before They Talk
Newly created neurons in adults rely on signals from distant brain regions to regulate their maturation and survival before they can communicate with existing neighboring cells--a finding that has important implications for the use of adult neural stem ce
cogsci  neuroscience  biology  science  cognitive 
november 2007 by jtth
Neural Network Applet
A tutorial for neural network generation and creation.
cogsci  neural  network  nn  neuralnetwork  ai 
october 2007 by jtth
Hopfield Applet
Another application of a Hopfield Neural Network.
neural  network  hopfield  cogsci  pattern  recognition 
october 2007 by jtth
Icastic - visualizing time
Drawings, with uberstatistics, of how people report visualizing time.
time  visualization  drawing  design  timeline  ideas  art  abstract  cogsci  inspiration  people  resource  blog  collaborative  todo  concept  data  conceptual  viz  english  info 
october 2007 by jtth
Spontaneous brain activity causes 'unforced errors' - being-human - 09 October 2007 - New Scientist
The reason why even professional basketball and soccer players sometimes miss an easy shot may be partly explained by spontaneous fluctuations of electrical activity within the brain, a study suggests.
brain  cogsci  Psychology  science 
october 2007 by jtth
Searching for God in the Brain: Scientific American
Researchers are unearthing the roots of religious feeling in the neural commotion that accompanies the spiritual epiphanies of nuns, Buddhists and other people of faith
biology  god  neurology  religion  science  cogsci 
october 2007 by jtth
PSYCHE: Volume 2
In this symposium, nine researchers in computer science, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and molecular biology address Penrose's positions at some length, concentrating on his Gödelian arguments against artificial intelligence and on his proposal th
penrose  shadows  of  the  mind  cogsci  cognitive  science  godel  brain  computation  computer  interesting 
october 2007 by jtth
Mind Over Manual - New York Times
EARLIER this summer, the American Psychiatric Association announced that a 27-member panel will update its official diagnostic handbook, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The fifth edition, which is scheduled to come out in 2012,
dsm  nytimes  psychology  cogsci 
september 2007 by jtth
IUB Conference on Agency and Responsibility
This conference will bring together philosophers from the diverse areas of ethics, metaphysics, and the cognitive sciences at their intersection point of human agency. Participants include eleven speakers and commentators and another seven invited partici
agency  cogsci  cognitive  science  philosophy  morality 
september 2007 by jtth
Quantum Cognition Notes
This page contains very rough drafts of the notes upon which Professor Busemeyer based his Quantum Tutorial presented at Cognitive Science 2007.
notes  pdf  science  cogsci  cognitive  quantum  physics  brain  probability  dynamics  computing 
september 2007 by jtth
Developing Intelligence : When Brain Damage Helps: Solution Spaces Are Constrained by Prefrontal Cortex
A test demonstrating problem space constraint. People with damage to the prefrontal cortex will do better than so-called "neurotypicals."
intelligence  cognitive  test  prefrontal  cortex  neuroscience  learning  problem  solving  cogsci  congitive  science 
june 2007 by jtth
Trepanation
Man undergoes trepanation. Gives interview. With pictures.
cogsci  terapnation  neuroscience  bme  interview  blog  journal 
june 2007 by jtth
Ai Research - Creating a new form of life
Ai Research is a leading artificial intelligence research project. At Ai, we're creating a new form of life. Our expanding web site is an essential part of the emerging global discussion about artificial intelligence. On this website, we showcase the stat
ai  research  design  artificial  intelligence  cogsci  cognitive  science  computer  turing 
june 2007 by jtth
Notecards | The Accidental Mind
Here you can download PDF files that will allow you to print out some choice illustrations from The Accidental Mind in notecard format.  Print, fold and enjoy!  Illustrations by Joan M.K. Tycko.
cogsci  psychology  neuroscience  mind  brain  illustration  black  white 
may 2007 by jtth
Top 10 Finalists - Best Visual Illusion Contest
Amazing new illusions from NeuralCorrelate.com
top10  top  10  illusion  mind  cogsci  perception  visual  optical  list 
may 2007 by jtth
mindsocket: blog
A cogsci quasiblog with no rss.
interesting  cogsci  list  blog 
may 2007 by jtth
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