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Kelly Criterion Observed to Be Adhered by Psychopaths?
As this study shows, psychopaths will take advantage of a positive expected value gamble (is there one to counterfact this showing that they'll also accept negative expected value gambles?) regardless ...
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Is there any chromatic analogue of the Shepard tone?
Is there any chromatic analogue of the Shepard tone? I am imagining that each pure tone would correspond to a pure wavelength of light, transformed in such a way that the middle of three consecutive ...
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1answer
170 views
How does the brain learn what something is for the first time?
I'm trying to understand how the idea of what a thing is originates in humans.
For example, in computer science, it is possible to know what an object is and what it does, by examining its ...
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What reasoning processes underlie the Logima Strictica 36 and Logicaus Strictimanus 24?
I am conducting research in creating an AI with high IQ.
I am interested in the tests Logima Strictica 36 Test and Logicaus Strictimanus 24. Further links are here
What is the logic of these test ...
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Can neural spiking in an organism temporarily cease?
I'm interested in modeling human brain spiking activity.
Are there cases in which neural spiking completely ceases in an organism and yet later resumes?
I've considered:
hypothermic drowning, but ...
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1answer
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Abstract idealized mental visualization improves motor task performance
I practice martial arts (Aikido), which involves a lot of rotation.
When practicing, I find that holding an abstract image in my head, instead of thinking about the actual technique, improves my ...
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Why does it seems in similar cases sometimes classic conditioning happens and in others habituation?
I'm slightly confused and was hoping you guys could correct me.
In classic conditioning as with Pavlov's dogs if we ring a bell just before a dog is given food, the bell will give the same response ...
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Can lucid dreaming detract from the recuperative effect of REM sleep?
Imagine you mastered lucid dreaming, so you have a lucid dream every night.
You might want to use this phase to do creative work or problem solving.
Would this have a negative influence on the ...
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Why do we become bored of stimuli after multiple exposures to it?
Why do we become bored of songs, films, stories, jokes, food after being exposed to them or experiencing them multiple times?
Why is it when our cortex becomes adequate at predicting the outcomes of ...
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1answer
123 views
To what extent do individuals vary in their ability to mentally visualise?
Background:
Yesterday I was shocked when a friend of mine told me that he can see only "completely black darkness" when he closes he eyes.
When I close my eyes, I can see some images or "movies" of ...
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Why have historically most inventors been men?
I noticed something strange when I looked at about.com's list of famous historical inventors. You can see that most of the inventors are men, and only a few are women.
Can this be explained by ...
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1answer
65 views
Are dice and domino dot arrangement conventions related to readability?
I noticed dice and dominos both use the same convention for dot placement. Is there a reason for this? Is there any research on how to layout dots so that they are most readable?
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Free online intelligence test with norm table, high reliability, and must be printable?
I am looking for a general intelligence test which meets the following requirements:
available online for free
there is a table which translates "points" to IQ (I don't want a hidden online ...
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1answer
69 views
Are there any standard psychometric scales that are only applicable to within-subject designs?
A while ago, I asked the question whether Presence questionnaires are valid in between-subject designs (see the question for the background to this assumption).
While the question garnered some ...
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1answer
129 views
How do you know if it's psychosomatic or not?
"It's in your head" is often true and often offensive. But as your head can invent any number of psychological and physiological symptoms how can you distinguish whether something is or isn't ...
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1answer
56 views
What's the name of the quantifying preference for visual stimulus by varying size or distance as compared to a reference task?
Say that you enjoy looking at two beautiful paintings (A and B). But you really can't tell which one you like more, and you want to (quantitatively).
So, you compare them both to your favorite ...
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1answer
86 views
Do internet memes say something about how the brain works? [closed]
I've been thinking about what the current internet memes, most notably the "advice animals" can say about the human brain/mind. I know that in the "old days", there were folk sayings and folk wisdom, ...
4
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2answers
136 views
Ignoring minority while generalizing about a group, any theoretical reference?
In conversation, we might define a particular group by the characteristics that the majority of that group holds even if a minority in that group doesn’t possess those characteristics.
Some ...
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1answer
202 views
Is performance reducible to brain activity in an unambiguous way?
As a preface, let me assume that the entirety of mental states and their corresponding behaviors in a person are entirely reducible to the physical activity of neurons sending a variety of chemicals ...
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1answer
181 views
Do action video games have an effect on spatial skills?
I've just watched a TED talk by Daphne Bavelier, who seems to be a major researcher on plasticity and video games. In it she presents results from a controlled lab study in which participants needed ...
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1answer
231 views
Have the abilities of John Lorber's patients with limited cortical mass been further evaluated in adulthood?
Short of minor lesions or infarcts, most high-functioning adults have an intact cerebral cortex. Yet, a surprising result published anecdotally in Science in 1980 caused a lot of scientists to take ...
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1answer
145 views
How does the mind build a model of reality?
I'm interested if there has been any research or experiments that deal with how the human mind creates and perpetuates the idea of knowing something.
I'm struggling to concisely express the question, ...
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Any work being done on Perception, Action, and/or Cognition in Video games?
Call it a nerd crossover, but I've always been curious about how we play games on a mechanistic level. However, even coming from a rational viewpoint video games seem like a fruitful domain of study, ...
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1answer
123 views
What type of learning mechanism produces a consistent typo?
There is a typographical error that I make and do so every time I try to type a certain word. Whenever I try to type remember, I type remeber. I do this every time. This is different to a regular typo ...
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1answer
82 views
Do persons with autism have a bigger genetic predisposition to psychosis/schizophrenia?
Do people with autism or Asperger's syndrome have a higher genetic predisposition to psychosis or schizophrenia than that of healthy people?
7
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1answer
65 views
How repeatable are cognitive science findings within the same individual?
Thanks to this website, I've seen a number of papers and scholarly articles that deal with cognition. I'm interested in how repeatable the findings are that are discovered as a result of experiments.
...
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1answer
57 views
Are there professional cognitive science test subjects?
I'm interested in how cognitive science experiments are designed and executed. Up until now, all of the papers I've seen dealing with cognition use availability of test subjects as one of the major ...
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2answers
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How to temporarily induce low latent inhibition?
As the Wikipedia article says,
High levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine (or its agonists) in the ventral tegmental area of the brain have been shown to decrease latent inhibition. Certain ...
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2answers
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Is there an actionable branch of cognitive science?
I'm not sure what is the name of a branch of cognitive science that deals with the application of cognitive science to the real world.
I know that in Biology, there are fields like genetic ...
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3answers
898 views
Why do you sometimes write down one word while actually intending to write another?
I've caught myself writing (typing) "possible" instead of "possibly" a few times over the past few days, while I do intend to write "possibly". Only upon rereading the sentence I notice my mistake.
...
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0answers
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Is there psychoactive music?
Listen to this music for X minutes to observe Y result. Is there something like that that has been demonstrated to work for general public?
The only example of an experiment that is similar that ...
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3answers
164 views
Is there a random walk theory that can account for situations with more than two choices?
In the article "Two-stage Dynamic Signal Detection: A Theory of Choice, Decision Time, and Confidence" from 2010 by Pleskac and Busemeyer, a random walk model is presented for situations where a ...
5
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1answer
157 views
Difference between voting patterns in men and women
I'm looking for recommended reading on difference in voting patterns between men and women - both empirical data and theoretical explanations. In particular, have any significant biases (in terms of ...
3
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1answer
60 views
How well defined is ADD/ADHD?
I understand ADHD is a standard term, but I'm still a bit suspicious that it's not a useful one; Psychiatry doesn't seem like the most reliable field.
Are there good reasons for picking out the ...
3
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0answers
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What regulates the strength of motoric signals?
I've seen cognitive/roboter models where the input signals from the sensors are directly used as the signal for outgoing motoric control.
This doesn't make much sense, because obviously we're able ...
8
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1answer
138 views
Origin of the SEEV Model of visual attention distribution
What's the original source of the SEEV (Salience Effort Expectancy Value) Model for predicting the distribution of visual attention? I've seen it mentioned in many papers and presentations but ...
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5answers
352 views
Why do we prefer visually aligned objects?
We all know visual alignment is one of the foundations of design. Everything must be aligned with everything else.
We also know that when things are aligned it is easier to process information.
My ...
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1answer
75 views
Psychological research on memorability of passwords?
There are lots of ad-hoc rules that people are happy to propose about passwords, such as:
Pick a phrase you can remember easily, and then use the initial letters.
A random short sequence of letters, ...
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161 views
How do emotions influence the language structures we use?
What are the verbal signs of subjectivity?
I am doing research about the linguistic content of media (debates, talk-show, sport comments). It occurs that once the participant gets nervous or excited, ...
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1answer
258 views
Is there a region of cortex which over a period of development becomes the seat of self?
Background
Mountcastle's hypothesis, which is based on the observation of uniform cortical anatomy, suggests that the there might be a uniform cortical "algorithm". The only reason that some cortical ...
8
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1answer
106 views
How are people able to wake themselves up after a pre-specified amount of time?
Auto-suggestion seems to work. Several people I know seem to be able to tell themselves "I'll wake up after 'N' hours/minutes", and do so within a minute or two of that duration.
I thought for a ...
3
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0answers
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Does this neural network model exist?
I'm looking for a neural network model with specific characteristics. This model may not exist...
I need a network which doesn't use "layers" as traditional artificial neural networks do. Instead, I ...
3
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0answers
88 views
How does appreciation for music change over time for the same person?
I know that there's a concept of acquired taste, where a child may find certain tastes, like peppers and beer unappealing until certain age or frequency of exposure.
Is there something similar to ...
9
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2answers
312 views
Plotting publication-quality ball-and-stick models of brain connectivity in 3D
I'm working on brain imaging (fMRI) and I'm looking for a way to plot brain effective connectivity (dynamic causal modeling) parameters between different brain regions in a 3D plot. The plotting ...
4
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1answer
62 views
A psychological theory that explains why people remember only the outcome?
I've read somewhere about a psychological theory that people often remember the end results or the outcome of a certain situation/discussion/conversation/etc, but not the details of it.
In other ...
5
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1answer
58 views
Accuracy of social judgements of observers watching business meetings
I'm very interested in how people size one another up in social situations and in particular what we key in on when we are making these judgements.
Let's make an imaginary experiment.
I make ...
6
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1answer
83 views
When faced with a choice and trying to make a quick decision, are 2 options better than 3 or more options?
Bastardi & Shafir (1998) show how too much data disabilitates your decision making. There is also the popular Paradox Of Choice argument.
However, I can't find a reference stating that, when ...
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1answer
146 views
Are intelligence scores correlated with detection of second stimulus in an Attentional Blink test?
Definitions
Attentional Blink: An attentional blink is a phenomenon where when presented with rapid visual stimuli if you are asked to track two particular stimuli you will fail to notice the second ...
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8answers
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How can I create computer based psychology experiments using OS X?
I've used E-prime to create computer based psychology experiments (you know, the kind where you for example show a number of pictures to the participant and record their responses to them, for example ...
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1answer
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Could Fitts Law be used to measure difficulty in platform genre games?
I've been learning about Fitts' law and am wondering if it's applicable to measuring the difficulty of platform type games where the challenge is to hit the platforms?
If so, this could be used to ...
