"the matrix of a reminiscing cogitation, shuffling and collating ‘things’ stored in a random-access memory scheme"
A placeholder post to “A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain,” a Scientific American guest blog post by Samuel McNerney. A direct challenge to Cartisean dualism, embodied cognition argues that not only shouldn’t we believe in a mind/body split, the way we think is structured by the fact that we [...]
Tue, November 8 2011 » Cognitive Studies, Memory » No Comments
From Research Digest: Blogging on Brain and Behavior: A new study led by Gabriel Radvansky shows that the simple act of walking through a doorway creates a new memory episode, thereby making it more difficult to recall information pertaining to an experience in the room that’s just been left behind. [Read more.]1 Radvansky, G., [...]
Thu, November 3 2011 » Cognitive Studies, Memory » No Comments
[Note: You may find this post less confusing if you first read "Of Time Machines and Memory, Part 1." Among other things, I explain the difference between author Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe (aka, the novel) and character Charles Yu's How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe [...]
Wed, November 2 2011 » Cognitive Studies, Memory, Science Fiction/Fantasy » No Comments
Summary of some studies on the internet’s affects on memory: A second experiment was aimed at determining whether computer accessibility affects precisely what we remember. “If asked the question whether there are any countries with only one color in their flag, for example,” the researchers wrote, “do we think about flags — or immediately think [...]
Thu, July 21 2011 » Cognitive Studies, Digital Studies/New Media, Media Ecology, Memory » No Comments
Jonathan Haidt’s Edge talk, “The New Science Of Morality” (link offers transcript, video, and downloadable audio), offers much goodness to mull over. Consider, for instance, his summary of a June 2010 Behavioral and Brain Sciences article by Joe Henrich, Steve Heine and Ara Norenzayan: So, in the article, they start by reviewing all the studies [...]
Fri, April 15 2011 » Cognitive Studies, Media Ecology » No Comments
From The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the Mind’s Hidden Complexities: When we see words on a page, do these words stand directly for external realities? No. As we gave seen, words and the patterns into which words fit are triggers to the imagination. They are prompts we use to try to get one [...]
Thu, October 21 2010 » Cognitive Studies, Memory, Quotes » No Comments
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video [Thanks to Nick Carbone for passing this on to TechRhet.]
Thu, October 7 2010 » Cognitive Studies » No Comments
And here’s part 2. Another mix of academic and non-academic. Your Memory: How It Works & How to Improve It, Kenneth L. Higbee Higbee is a Brigham Young U psychologist who pioneered a college course on memory improvement. Part crash course in memory theory and part crash course into practical mnemotechniques, I’m interested in this [...]
Sun, June 27 2010 » Charles Stross, Cognitive Studies, Digital Studies/New Media, Memory, Reading, Science Fiction/Fantasy » 2 Comments
Having done a recent reading roundup, I know you’re all dying to know what’s in my immediate reading future, so, without further ado: The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought, Ed. Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. Currently reading. Yes, I do actually read scholarship. While I am afraid of getting lost in metaphor theory, as I [...]
Sat, June 26 2010 » Cognitive Studies, Marshall McLuhan, Reading, Science Fiction/Fantasy » No Comments
[I ought to have a category label "my cognitive turn." You might call this part of the series "My Adventures in Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Rhetoric, and Cognitive Poetics" that began with "My Cognitive (Re)Turn."] I’ve read a fair amount of books and articles on blending, a topic with which I seem to have, metaphorically speaking, [...]
Thu, June 17 2010 » Cognitive Studies, Memory, Probes, Quotes, Reading » 3 Comments
