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Overcoming Bias : How Wrong Can We Be?
This all seems to add up to a consistent expert consensus that humans quite often, perhaps even usually, just don’t know why they do what they do. And this is extremely disturbing, as it calls into question our own opinions about why we do what we do.
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Thus the practice of academic economics implicitly accepts that people often, perhaps even usually, do things for reasons other than the reasons they give.
Consider also that something similar holds in sales and marketing. The rationale a marketer gives for why an ad or other product strategy works usually differs quite a bit from the reasons people give for why they like an ad or a product. Similarly, the reasons dating and other relation consultants give for why their suggested strategies help people like or respect you are often quite at odds with the reasons people give for why they like or respect others.
Oxford University Press: Cognition, Evolution, and Behavior: Sara J. Shettleworth
Cognition, Evolution and the Study of Behavior integrates research from psychology, behavioral ecology, and ethology in a wide-ranging synthesis of theory and research about animal cognition in the broadest sense, from species-specific adaptations in fish to cognitive mapping in rats and honeybees to theories of mind for chimpanzees. As a major contribution to the emerging discipline of comparative cognition, the book is an invaluable resource for all students and researchers in psychology, zoology, behavioral neuroscience.
Musicians have better memory -- not just for music, but words and pictures too : Cognitive Daily
Quest for Expertise « Disparate
The claim is what a type of “rule of thumb” in cognitive science. A generic version could be stated in the following way: "It takes ten years or 10,000 hours to become an expert in any field."
Andy Clark - Philosophy at The University of Edinburgh
Research Interests
Philosophy of Mind, Artificial Intelligence, including robotics, artificial life, embodied cognition, and mind, technology and culture.
Pick two (kottke.org)
Very interesting discussion and elaboration of the pick two: good, fast, cheap trilemma.
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