kvnglbrtsn + cognition   10

McGurk effect
"The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound." from Wikipedia.
audio  cognition  perception  psychology  visual 
january 2012 by kvnglbrtsn
Umwelt
"According to Jakob von Uexküll and Thomas A. Sebeok, umwelt is the 'biological foundations that lie at the very epicenter of the study of both communication and signification in the human [and non-human] animal.'" from Wikipedia.
cognition  evolution  environment  semiotics 
march 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
Why Are Easy Decisions So Hard?
"Their hypothesis is that my wasted deliberation...is a metacognitive mistake....I confuse the array of options and excess of information with importance."
cognition  brain  psychology 
march 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
“'I left it on the southern edge of the western table.'” from NYT.
language  cognition  culture  perception  linguistics 
september 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
"Chemero’s experiment, published March 9 in Public Library of Science, was designed to test one of Heidegger’s fundamental concepts: that people don’t notice familiar, functional tools, but instead 'see through' them to a task at hand, for precisely the same reasons that one doesn’t think of one’s fingers while tying shoelaces. The tools are us." from Wired.
cognition  philosophy  ux 
march 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Divided Attention
In an age of classroom multitasking, scholars probe the nature of learning and memory. from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
learning  memory  research  cognition  education  multitasking 
february 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
A versus F: The effects of implicit letter priming on cognitive performance.
"Our findings suggest that students are vulnerable to evaluative letters presented before a task, and support years of research highlighting the significant role that nonconscious processes play in achievement settings." from PubMed.
cognition  research  learning 
february 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Mirrors Don't Lie. Mislead? Oh, Yes.
the simultaneous simplicity and complexity of mirrors. from nyt.
psychology  science  cognition  brain 
july 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Cognition and Emotion are not Separate
parceling the brain into cognitive and affective regions is inherently problematic.
brain  mind  neuroscience  psychology  cognition 
january 2008 by kvnglbrtsn

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