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honeydue
ThoughtfulDailyPost
Saturday, April 12, 2025 6:24 AM
Purveyors of Beauty
I do believe you have a need for balance in your life, and that it pays to be mindful of that balance. We are in some areas of our life. Fitness, for instance. When we've overindulged with a burger, for
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khackett
awakening
Sunday, March 10, 2019 1:45 AM
This series is excellent!
I've watched all the episodes and am just fascinated. If you've got time, it's really something to get you thinking. I highly recommend it!
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anwarcraven
brain
Friday, August 24, 2018 11:11 PM
How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen
In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils
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anwarcraven
children
Thursday, July 26, 2018 12:34 AM
Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit | Lindsay Malloy
Why do juveniles falsely confess to crimes? What makes them more vulnerable than adults to this shocking, counterintuitive phenomenon? Through the lens of Brendan Dassey's interrogation and confession
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capatazche
virtualreality
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 3:25 PM
New Yoker Reads #1: Thoughts on VR, inspired by "As Real as It Gets" - Joshua Rothman (The Mind Issue)
My partner is a reader of "The New Yorker" magazine. Even though I do not read it as often as her, every now and then she recommends to me an issue or a specific piece. This time, she gave me
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steemstem
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 11:47 PM
Is Human Cooperation Innate Or Learned? En Essay, Part 2
If you have not read Part 1, make sure to check it out before reading this post! As mentioned before, nowadays it is very common to see strangers engaging in an act of cooperation. Nevertheless, studies
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steemstem
Monday, May 21, 2018 8:28 PM
Is Human Cooperation Innate Or Learned? En Essay, Part 1
In 2013, Brandon Stanton began wandering around New York City, taking people’s portraits on his camera and sharing their stories on the Internet (Stanton, n.d.). Brandon asked questions about people’s
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steemstem
Tuesday, May 8, 2018 11:20 PM
Behavioral Game Theory: The Most Fruitful Direction For Future Research in The Area of Human Judgement and Decision Making
“Without having a broad set of facts on which to theorize, there is a certain danger of spending too much time on models that are mathematically elegant, yet have little connection to actual behavior.
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theinfluentialmind
Friday, April 13, 2018 2:57 PM
The Influential Mind Made Me Think #8: On How Stress Changes Our Perspectives
Let's go back in time to March 21st, 1983 in the village of Arrabah, West Bank. A seventeen year old girl sitting in class suddenly started experiencing an irritating cough and shortness of breath. Shortly
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theinfluentialmind
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 2:33 PM
The Influential Mind Made Me Think #7: On The Pleasure And Pain Of Knowledge, And What We Choose To Learn
In a previous edition of the The Influential Mind Made Me Think I talked about how we love to have the ability to choose. I believe that this love comes from the capability of learning from our decisions
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anwarcraven
choice
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 9:10 PM
Do you really know why you do what you do? | Petter Johansson
Experimental psychologist Petter Johansson researches choice blindness -- a phenomenon where we convince ourselves that we're getting what we want, even when we're not. In an eye-opening talk, he shares
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talisharot
Thursday, March 22, 2018 8:22 PM
The Power Of Language And Ideas
Some time ago, I started reading Tali Sharot's "The Influential Mind". Because of the way the book is written and its content, every couple of pages I need to stop and think. On one of those
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cpufronz
steemstem
Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:08 PM
Adventures in Cognitive Science 9: Final Post and Overview
Source: pixbay.com This is my last post in this series. It was quite an interesting experience for me to write about the field I'm studying in a manner that everyone can understand it (hopefully I was
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cpufronz
steemstem
Monday, January 22, 2018 8:32 PM
Adventures in Cognitive Science 8: Language and Concepts
Source: pixbay.com In this post I am again going to present a theory that tries to combine linguistic approaches with cognitive models, the Theory of Lexical Concepts and Cognitive Models (LCCM). As the
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cpufronz
steemstem
Sunday, January 21, 2018 6:31 PM
Adventures in Cognitive Science 7: Language, Simulations and their Role in Cognition
Source: pixbay.com In this post I am going to present the language and situated simulation (LASS) theory. Traditionally, it was often assumed that there is one single type of representation (e.g. amodal
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cpufronz
steemstem
Saturday, January 20, 2018 10:39 AM
Adventures in Cognitive Science 6: How Language interferes with Actions
Source: pixbay.com After writing about mirror neurons, the common coding theory and neural simulation of actions, which all go kind of in the same direction of simulating actions and helping us to perceive
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cpufronz
steemstem
Friday, January 19, 2018 8:47 PM
Adventures in Cognitive Science 5: How the Brain simulates Actions
This post goes into a similar direction as my previous two about Mirror Neurons and the Common Coding Theory, the neural simulation theory basically says that covert actions (“actions”, which only exist
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cpufronz
steemstem
Thursday, January 18, 2018 7:51 PM
Adventures in Cognitive Science 4: Common Coding Theory – How is Perception linked with Action?
Source: pixbay.com Picking up on my last post about mirror neurons, this time I am going to write about the common coding theory. Just like my last post, I am not going to present one paper in detail,
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cpufronz
steemstem
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 2:40 PM
Adventures in Cognitive Science 3: Mirror Neurons – Towards understanding Others
This time I'm writing about mirror neurons, it is slightly different from my previous two posts, since I do not review and present one paper, but I will write about one topic and draw back to two papers
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cpufronz
steemstem
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 2:43 PM
Adventures in Cognitive Science 2: What's that Thing called Embodiment?
Source: pixbay.com The second paper I am going to present is pretty much a follow-up to the first one. It was written by Tom Ziemke, a full professor of cognitive science at the University of Skövde and
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