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What was her/his name again.....ahh got it!
You all know the situation described in the title. You forgot something and start to search your memory and then after quite a while it jumps right in front of you, out of nowhere.
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What happens in the brain during that moment of…
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Why does anger "cloud the mind"?
There are a lot of anecdotes on frustration and anger inhibiting judgement and problem solving. Examples include "anger clouding the mind" in pop culture, or in programming, where a rule of thumb is to walk away from your computer when you're stuck…
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What's the name of this visual search task?
I recall a visual search task where participants would search for a single item with either one or two distinct features. For example one would look for an X in a set of Os as "one feature" or instead they would look for a red X in a set of red Os,…
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Do hints improve memorization when using spaced repetition?
For example, I'm learning geography using the spaced repetition method. I have some program which asks me questions like, "In which country Melbourne is located?", and I have to recall the country (assuming I've studied the material and at least…
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What are proper EEG frequency bands and electrode placements for imagined speech?
I am doing an EEG experiment about imagined speech recognition. Which frequencies will have the most relevant information? I chose the frequency band [4-40] Hz as a start, mainly because of signal processing considerations. Filtering out the…
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How can items from a general self-esteem/efficacy measure be changed to measure context specific self-esteem/efficacy?
I am very interested in a survey employing a Likert type scale in my research. I have come across the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale. I would like to use this scale to get a sense of how subjects feel about their self-esteem during their trial in my…
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Can positive self-affirmation improve mood?
Most people get "depressed" every now and then - nothing serious, but people sometimes feel down. I am wondering if positive self-affirmation can make you happier by physically increasing the serotonin levels in your brain, or by some other…
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What are the pros and cons of the hot sauce paradigm to measure aggression?
The hot sauce paradigm is a way to measure aggressive behavior in the lab. Participants are asked to give a portion of hot sauce to another person (who they know hates hot sauce) and who will have to eat it all, ostensibly as part of a taste test.…
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What are the most used statistical methods in WM research besides (generalized) linear modeling?
I mean, by cognitive psychologists. I skimmed over a few articles from Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and Trends in Cognitive Science and concluded that ANOVAs and t-tests are mostly used (without effect sizes). I'm sure that there are more…
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What is the correlation between objective indexes and aggregated self-report measures of life satisfaction?
The Better Life Index and other indices seek to overcome the limitations of GDP in assessing social progress. They provide a composite score with which to rank nations on a range of indicators such as safety, environment, health, employment,…
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Whether to ask satisfaction and importance questions for each item in a survey?
Job satisfaction and opinion surveys ask respondents to provide ratings on a set of items. One response scale might be a five point rating scale measuring satisfaction (e.g., 5-point strongly dissatisfied to strongly satisfied) with the item content…
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Is there a way to avoid false memories?
I saw a video on how interrogators used manipulation on the victim/criminal which lead to innocent people being arrested and one way of doing that was using false memories in which the person was giving altered facts about what happened to the point…
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Effectiveness of implicit measures of deception (e.g., sweating, eye focus, EEG) when filling out online questionnaire
I'm working in my master thesis on a method of detecting user deception or lying when answering online questionnaires using his implicit feedback like sweating, eye focus, EEG etc.
I would like if you could recommend me some related works or books…
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Is it conceivable to transmit all sound information in the tactile modality?
You may have heard of Evelyn Glennie, an acclaimed solo virtuoso percussionist. She has been profoundly deaf from the age of 12, but learned to differentiate pitch tactilely. She had absolute pitch, which obviously helped. She plays bare feet in…
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Is 'intuition' related to 'extrasensory perception'?
I come from a computer science background and am a big time AI enthusiast. I am trying to think about how can we map 'intuition' to a process in artificial intelligence. As I understand, 'intuition' means generating (correct) knowledge (for…
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