OCD, Tourette’s Syndrome and Addiction: A Real Distinction?
The scientific and philosophical literature considers compulsive and addictive disorders to be distinct. But this belief is based on an oversimplified interpretation of patient reports. It turns out...
View ArticleWhen The Brain’s Biological Clock Goes Haywire
Patients suffering from psychological disorders are unable to properly coordinate events in time. They over- or underestimate time intervals ranging from several seconds to minutes. But what exactly...
View ArticleDoes Colorblindness Discriminate?
Some assume that colors appear the same to all of us. But research indicates that this isn’t the case. It turns out that white male privilege exists even in objective theories of perceptual color...
View ArticleMicro-Inequities: 40 Years Later
In 1973 Mary Rowe of MIT coined the notion of micro-inequities: apparently small, hard-to-prove events that occur wherever people are perceived to be different. Rowe pointed out that micro-inequities,...
View ArticleDo You Suffer From Emotional Pain or Anxiety? Pop a Tylenol
Emotional pain is often said to be very different from physical pain. Past studies have revealed that this is not quite right. The brain interprets physical and emotional pain in similar ways. A new...
View Article"I Can Easily Beat BlackJack"
There are people who can remember four decks of cards in a few minutes or recite Pi to 20,000 decimal points. Do these extreme memory abilities require savant skills or hours of relentless practice?...
View ArticleStruck By Lightning
Lightning results from a negative charge in the clouds that causes the ground to become positively charged, pulling the electrons toward it at a great force. When struck by lightning, people usually...
View ArticleAn Unusual Case of Synesthesia
In a 1913 article in the The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Isador Coriat describes a case of “colored pain,” which is still considered a rare form of synesthesia. These synesthetes perceive colors as...
View ArticleSloppy Psychology and Zero Tolerance Policies
Zero tolerance policies are purported to make our schools safer. But they simply aren’t effective. Let’s stop extorting innocent children in the name of deterrence. read more The post Sloppy Psychology...
View ArticleFeature in St. Louis Magazine
The lab’s Berit Brogaard was recently featured in St. Louis Magazine. Read it here. The post Feature in St. Louis Magazine appeared first on Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research.
View ArticleIs Color Experience Cognitively Penetrable?
Is color experience cognitively penetrable? Some philosophers have recently argued that it is. In this paper, we take issue with the claim that color experience is cognitively penetrable. We argue that...
View ArticleUnintended Public Nudity, Rotting Teeth And Other Common Dreams, Decoded By...
If you’ve ever woken up in the middle of the night perplexed by your latest weird dream, you’re not alone. We all have some seemingly screwed up dreams. But did you know that many of our dreams stick...
View ArticleCortical Color and the Cognitive Sciences
Back when researchers thought about the various forms that color vision could take, the focus was primarily on the retinal mechanisms. Since that time, research on human color vision has shifted from...
View ArticleDeaf Hearing: Implicit Discrimination of Auditory Content in a Patient with...
We describe a patient LS, profoundly deaf in both ears from birth, with underdeveloped superior temporal gyri. Without hearing aids, LS displays no ability to detect sounds below a fixed threshold of...
View ArticleIntuition vs. Reason
Consider the following puzzle, borrowed from Nobel-prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast And Slow: A bat and ball cost $1.10. The bat costs one dollar more than the ball. How much...
View ArticleSynesthetic Binding and the Reactivation Model of Memory
Despite the recent surge in research on, and interest in, synesthesia, the mechanism underlying this condition is still unknown. Feedforward mechanisms involving overlapping receptive fields of...
View ArticleThe Reality Instinct
“Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.” — Alexis Carrel Intuition, or what is also known as instinct or gut feeling, can indeed...
View ArticlePre-cueing Effects on Perception and Cognitive Penetrability
In The Principles of Psychology, James (1981) suggested that attending to a stimulus can make it appear more “vivid and clear.” Pre-cueing, the procedure in which a cue stimulus is presented to direct...
View ArticleUnconscious Imagination and the Mental Imagery Debate
Traditionally, philosophers have appealed to the phenomenological similarity between visual experience and visual imagery to support the hypothesis that there is significant overlap between the...
View ArticleThe Mystery of Why Some People Become Sudden Geniuses
There’s mounting evidence that brain damage has the power to unlock extraordinary creative talents. What can this teach us about how geniuses are made? Read the article here.
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