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Buried Prejudice: The Bigot in Your Brain: Scientific American
behavior, bias, cognition, perception, prejudice, psychology, race, racism, science saved by: deusdiabolus more details ...
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=buried-prejudice-the-bigot-in-your-brain&sc=rss
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
cognition, experiment, forbarbygere, memoire saved by: skyle more details ...
http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_wozniak?currentPage=all
New Scientist Technology Blog: Virtual reality, virtual memories
Virtual reality can apparently prompt the development of false memories.
1206, article, cognition, edls, realit_augmente saved by: skyle more details ...
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2006/12/virtual-reality-virtual-memories.html
Collective Cognition
cognition saved by: meryn more details ...
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/collective-cognition.html
Language and the Learning of Mathematics
We think in terms of words. Yet today anyone who identifies lexical reasoning, based on gradually formalized natural language, as the key to the learning of mathematics, is filing a minor...
cognition, comprehension, education, formalization, internalization, translation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.mathematicallycorrect.com/allen4.htm
The Probabilistic Age
The good thing about probabilistic systems is that they can scale nicely both in breadth and depth. But because they do this by sacrificing absolute certainty on the microscale, you need ...
cognition, decentralization, information, optimization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/12/the_probabilist.html
LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?
When I'm on LSD and hearing something that's pure rhythm, it takes me to another world and into anther brain state where I've stopped thinking and started knowing,
catalyzation, cognition, perception saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70015-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_1
More surprises from Fidelity
Heuristics are part of the human OS, and while they serve us terrifically in many many instances, they have bugs known as cognitive biases. Even when we are conscious of these potential t...
cognition, confirmation, perception, recognition, selection saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.parkparadigm.com/?p=66
Moving up the wisdom hierarchy
If we could teach kids in elementary school just one thing (besides reading), my wish is that it would be systems thinking. But too much of even our adult training/education is focused on...
cognition, education, navigation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2006/04/moving_up_the_w.html
Metacognition
[Concept mapping by students for information-problem solving] accomplishes two goals—to help them complete their assignment efficiently and successfully, and to remind them that they mu...
cognition, connection, education, information, interpretation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.speedofcreativity.org/2006/05/25/metacognition
Visual Models
Models exist both internally as mental models and externally as cognitive artifacts. Cognitive artifacts can take many forms. [...] While these different kinds of models vary greatly in t...
cognition, comprehension, confirmation, formalization, observation, prediction, recognition, representation, visualization saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.idiagram.com/ideas/models.html
Cognitive map
cognition, composed of a series of psychological transformations by which an individual can acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations and attribute...
cognition, interpretation, representation, transformation saved by: meryn more details ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_map
Scientist postulates 4 aspects of 'humaniqueness' differentiating human and animal cognition
Shedding new light on the great cognitive rift between humans and animals, a Harvard University scientist has synthesized four key differences in human and animal cognition into a hypothe...
2008, article, cognition, intelligence saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/hu-spf021408.php
Sex Differences Extend Into The Brain
As researchers continue to explain how sex influences brain function, we will see more diagnostic tools and therapies that successfully account for the biological differences between wome...
2008, article, cognition, gender, neuroscience, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080229171609.htm
Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
Appreciating these differences may be crucial to understanding the mechanisms of neural information processing, and ultimately for the creation of artificial intelligence.
2007, article, brain, cognition, computerscience, neuroscience, psychology, thinking saved by: meryn more details ...
http://scienceblogs.com/developingintelligence/2007/03/why_the_brain_is_not_like_a_co.php
Go With Your Gut -- Intuition Is More Than Just A Hunch, Says New Research
intuition is the result of the way our brains store, process and retrieve information on a subconscious level and so is a real psychological phenomenon which needs further study to help u...
2008, article, cognition, hunch, intuition, psychology saved by: meryn more details ...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080305144210.htm
Are You Sticky? - TIME
take your idea, whatever it may be, and present it as a Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, Emotional Story. "We were a little embarrassed when it turned out that we could summarize i...
cognition, marketing saved by: gahlord more details ...
http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/article/0,9171,1552029,00.html
A Programmer's Guide to the Mind
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http://209.87.142.42/y/programr.htm