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Beyond Piaget - teaching numbers to preschoolers
Applications of cognitive neuroscience to preschool teaching
What Clown on a Unicycle? Studying Cellphone Distraction
In this study, most pedestrians who were talking on cell phones failed to notice a guy in a clown suit riding a unicycle.
Now extrapolate that to the more complex task of driving...
"Warm Hands Warm Your Heart" By Steven Reinberg
THURSDAY, Oct. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Holding a warm cup of coffee gives you a warm feeling about the person across the table, new research reveals.
How Memories are Distorted and Invented: Misattribution | PsyBlog
Nice overview of different types of misattribution
Study: Discriminating fact from fiction in recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
"spontaneously recovered memories were corroborated about as often (37% of the time) as continuous memories (45%). Thus, abuse memories that are spontaneously recovered may indeed be just as accurate as memories that have persisted since the time the incident took place. Interestingly, memories that were recovered in therapy could not be corroborated at all. "
Differences in recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse
Women who recovered memories of sexual abuse during therapy were more likely than others to have a false memory on a test of recall of a list of words.
What's wrong with believing in repression? A review for legal professionals
What's wrong with believing in repression?: A review for legal professionals.
Piper, August; Lillevik, Linda; Kritzer, Roxanne
Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. Vol 14(3), Aug 2008, 223-242.
"This paper was written to inform judges and attorneys about the relevant evidence, which shows that: (a) the concepts of repressed and recovered memory are not generally accepted in the psychological and psychiatric community; (b) the studies cited to support these concepts reveal significant flaws; (c) much empirical evidence has been accumulated against the theory of repression; (d) the studies using the best methodology offer the least support for the repression hypothesis; and (e) there is no evidence that recovered memories accurately reveal the specifics of long-ago events. Repressed- and recovered-memory theory is not supported by science."
Getting It Wrong: Surprising Tips on How to Learn: Scientific American
Get it wrong to get it right - trying to guess an answer before you study the material improves later retention, at least for some types of materials
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In a series of experiments, they showed that if students make an unsuccessful attempt to retrieve information before receiving an answer, they remember the information better than in a control condition in which they simply study the information. Trying and failing to retrieve the answer is actually helpful to learning.
Baby Got Math: Seven-month-olds Show An Abstract Numerical Sense Before They Can Even Talk
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development
Overview of Kohlberg's stages
Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development
Overview of Piaget's theory
The Young and the Neuro - Social Cognitive Neuroscience
Report of a few studies from the Social and Affective Neurosciences Conference, Oct. 2009.
The Innocence Project - News and Information: Fact Sheets
"Eyewitness misidentifications contributed to over 75% of the more than 220 wrongful convictions in the United States overturned by post-conviction DNA evidence."
Change Blindness Reprints - Daniel Simons
Bibliography and reprint request page for Daniel Smons -
Nice idea, makes it very easy to obtain reprints!
Memento (2000) - movie
A man who can't form new memories tried to find the man he thinks killed his wife. Fiction.
Unknown White Male (2005) - movie
Documentary about a man who work up with total amnesia, and its subsequent effect on him and his life.
Life Without Memory: The Case of Clive Wearing, Part 1a
Clive Wearing can't make new memories, following viral encephalitis. He truly lives "in the moment."
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