Historical memories without (much) historical hatred?
All cultures rely on collective historical memories to define their identity and to form a shared interpretation of reality. Recent research investigated the processes underlying the formation of historical memories in Croatians whose parents were affected by war in the 1990s. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - July 14, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Lifelong experience with video gaming confers enhanced cognitive benefits
There is much evidence to sugest that video gaming can help with certain dimensions of executive function. Less is known about which dimensions are affected, or whether individual differences can help explain disagreements between studies. To further delve into this issue, a recent study looked at whether gaming habits starting in pre-adolescence can sharpen executive processing skills even further. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - July 6, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Betrayed by averaging: invalid inferences when nobody is 'average'
One of the essential goals of psychology is generalization: describing ways in which people are similar. Of course, human behaviour varies across situations, times, and individuals, and hence often defies generalization. Ignoring this variability and assuming that people are the same can lead to improper generalizations about human behaviour. A recent article describes instances where previous research in decision making has ignored individual differences and thus made inappropriate inferences. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 30, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Catching the same fish twice: How wide is the MTurk net?
Many researchers are using MTurk now for data collection. Many thousands of journal articles have now reported results from the MTurk population, with a doubling of the total in the last year or so. With so many researchers using the MTurk population it is important to know how large the pool of subjects really is. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 28, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
When good data break bad: Data visualization and eye movements
We live in a world dominated by data. Data visualization can help us comprehend data, but it can also lead us astray. Recent research uses eye movements to track how we process data. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 23, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
From #symbodiment to STEM: Debates about the nature of meaning and representations
How are the meanings of words, events and objects represented and organized in the brain? The Psychonomic Society recently continued the debate of this long-standing scientific puzzle with a special issue of the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review and a week-long digital event. Next up: A special issue of CRPI on embodied cognition and STEM education. This post provides an archival entry point to the discussion. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 22, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Left hit and right stay: Eye movements reveal hand value in blackjack
Eye movements offer a window into the soul and cognition. Recent research shows that blackjack players who hold high-value cards tend to glance fleetingly to the right, whereas those with a lower-value hand do so spontaneously to the left. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 19, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Flexible Berserkers: there ’s more than one route to meaning
What does it mean to go berserk? And how do we understand that meaning? The #symbodiment special issue and this week ’s posts have grappled with question of how we conceptualize the words on this screen, actions, events, and objects, and to what degree our conceptualizations draw on our sensorimotor experiences. Here I argue that there are many different routes to meaning and many ways to understand mind and beh avior. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 16, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Flexible Berserkers: there’s more than one route to meaning
What does it mean to go berserk? And how do we understand that meaning? The #symbodiment special issue and this week’s posts have grappled with question of how we conceptualize the words on this screen, actions, events, and objects, and to what degree our conceptualizations draw on our sensorimotor experiences. Here I argue that there are many different routes to meaning and many ways to understand mind and behavior. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 16, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
The poverty of the disembodiment of embodied cognition
Stephen Goldinger and his students offered a “ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new”, in their enthusiastic disembodiment of cognition in their contribution to the #symbodiment issue. I suggest that their criticism is misplaced. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
#symbodiment should be #symbodimeaning: Do we need concepts?
The word “concept” and its variants occurs 1732 times in the text and references of the #symbodiment special issue. “Meaning” and its variants occur just 232 times. Should this be the other way round, as it it in “normal” language, which favors "meaning" by 3:1? (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 14, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
From #symbodiment to Radical Embodied Cognition
This commentary presents a few thoughts about the successes and failures of the embodied research program, and offers some thoughts on the road forward. The road forward should consider and discuss some radical options. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 13, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Arguments about the nature of concepts: #symbodiment and beyond
The question of how word, object, event and action meanings are represented and organized in the brain has a rich and dynamic history. This post summarizes the broad developments in the field and sets the stage for the #symbodiment discussion. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 13, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
#symbodiment: God may really be up there but perhaps your lips don't listen?
How are the meanings of words, events and objects represented and organized in the brain? The Psychonomic Society continues debate of this long-standing scientific puzzle with a special issue of the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review and a week-long digital event that commences with this post. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 12, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Building Rosebud before you can imagine it: The architects of cinema
A screenwriter's perspective on the architecture of movies that has recently been analyzed by a Psychonomic scholar. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 8, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
