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• Humanness

  Published: September 7, 2007, 8:30 am

  Tags: Sentience, Apes, Cognition, Humans, Evolution, Primate, Monkey, Orangutan, Animals

  a new study finds."Social cognition skills are critical for learning," Herrmann said in a news release. "The children were much better than the apes in understanding nonverbal communications, imitating another's solution to a problem and understanding the intentions of others," she said. Hermann's study involved 230 subjects -- 100 chimps, 30

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• Alex RIP

  Published: September 9, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Birds, Biology, Obituary, Sentience, Rip, Cognition, Evolution, Intelligence

  You may have seen Alex on TV. That is where I first came across him.He provided evidence that animals are not dumb.And he gave new meaning to bird brained.The African Grey Parrot is a medium-sized parrot of the genus Psittacus native to Africa, and is considered one of the most intelligent birds. Pet owners often liken the experience of keeping

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• How's Your Life? I Dunno, Is It Raining? [Mixing Memory]

  Published: October 6, 2007, 10:39 am

  Tags: Social Cognition

  If you've been reading this blog for a while, you probably know that I'm fascinated by findings that show just how little we know about ourselves. Most of what's going on in our heads occurs below the level of awareness, and behind the often impenetrable barrier of the unconscious. Often when we're asked to make judgments, explain our actions, or

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• Make 'Em Bloody! [Mixing Memory]

  Published: October 15, 2007, 11:34 am

  Tags: Social Cognition

  Offered without comment (and sorry, only available with subscription; maybe I'll say something more about it later), except to say, why the hell am I not doing stuff with video games? Bartlett, C.P., Harrisa, R.J., & Brueya, C. (In Press). The effect of the amount of blood in a violent video game on aggression, hostility, and arousa. Journal of

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• How to talk about Health Care [A Blog Around The Clock]

  Published: October 30, 2007, 11:46 am

  Tags: Cognition

  Rockridge Institute published a set of articles (and a video ad) that I found quite interesting about the way to frame health care. See for yourself: Introduction to Rockridge's Health Care Campaign: Framing for Rockridge is about the honest expression of the progressive moral view based upon empathy and responsibility for oneself and

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• Priming "God Did It" [Mixing Memory]

  Published: December 6, 2007, 9:27 am

  Tags: Social Cognition

  Recently, several social psychologists have posited a "Whodunit" system in the brain that's always looking to assign authorship -- either our own or somebody else's -- to actions. Most of the time, it's pretty easy to tell when we've done something, because we have all sorts of signals coming from the body, along with the brain's awareness of the

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• Combating Stereotype Threat in the Wild [Mixing Memory]

  Published: December 19, 2007, 4:05 pm

  Tags: Social Cognition

  As I believe I've said before, if anything good has come from the Larry Summers debacle of a few years ago, it's that it inspired some really interesting research on gender differences in math. If you've been reading this blog for a while, you've probably guessed that one of my favorite topics in that research is stereotype threat. Stereotype

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• Animal and Human Cognition: Are the differences that great?

  Published: February 24, 2008, 7:11 pm

  Tags: Animal Science, Animals In Translation, Human And Animal Cognition, Temple Grandin, Cognitive Neuroscientists, Autism

  Two articles in the Science Daily news examine the differences in human and animal cognition -- the first, an article linked to the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology Journal that asks the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Animal and Human Cognition: Are the differences that great?

  Published: February 24, 2008, 7:11 pm

  Tags: Animal Science, Animals In Translation, Human And Animal Cognition, Temple Grandin, Cognitive Neuroscientists, Autism

  Two articles in the Science Daily news examine the differences in human and animal cognition -- the first, an article linked to the Public Library of Science (PLoS) Biology Journal that asks the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Alt Search Engine Day in Review–Part 2

  Published: April 25, 2008, 1:32 am

  Tags: Travel Industry News, Uptake News, Boorah, Charles Knight, Cognition, Eggi, Google Semantic Web, Ontologies, Powerset, True Knowledge, Vertical Search, Visual Search

  Kathleen Dahlgren of Cognition Q: What is your biggest challenge? True Knowledge-key challenge is building the structured content to answer the questions properly. Q: What can be done now that couldn’t be done before your site was created? Eeggie-we can really search the internet in any language, we are building a real world

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• Enhancing my grey cells

  Published: June 2, 2008, 7:40 am

  Tags: Intelligence, Cognition Enhancing Drugs

  There's no doubt among those 'in the know' that in the foreseeable future we will be able to access new drugs that will permit us to boost our brain functions. Drugs designed to halt or prevent the deterioration of Alzheimer's patients will likely equally be able to enhance the memory of people with brains like mine. My friends and colleagues know

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• Conservatives are Happier than Liberals Because... [Mixing Memory]

  Published: June 11, 2008, 5:05 pm

  Tags: Social Cognition

  orientation, need for cognition, rationalization of inequality, and several control variables (gender, job status, education, church attendance, etc.) and the self-reported happiness of the survey takers. Considered alone conservatism was positively related to happiness (in case you don't know, regression is like correlation -- a positive

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• Epix Unveiling Full Alzheimer's Results at Medical Meeting, No More Surprises

  Published: July 22, 2008, 8:50 am

  Tags: Boston, Boston Blog Main, National Blog Main, Biotech, Alzheimer S, Clinical Trials, Life Sciences, Cognition, Epix, Glaxosmithkline, Adas Cog, Michael Kauffman, International Conference On Alzheimer S Disease, Alzheimer S Association, Pfizer, Eisai, Aricept, Prx 03140

  in patients’ cognition score was 3.6 points on a standard scale, not the 5.7 point gain previously reported. “Obviously, we are not using those folks anymore,” says Epix CEO Michael Kauffman. Now Epix is trying to set the record straight for good. The company plans to present full results from the mid-stage trial at

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