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An interesting phenomenon discussed a bit ago in my Cognitive Development course was the importance of self-based locomotion in spatial knowledge and awareness. For that course, I’ve actually just received the go-ahead from the professor, Dr. Bob Siegler, to write my final paper on this specific area of children’s development.
A great experiment that illuminates the [...]

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Occasionally I’m called out for wearing stripes too often, but what can I say, they’re so… visually interesting. And that’s not just me talking here, that’s cold, hard science. As I’ve discovered in my Cognitive Development course with Dr. Bob Siegler, the fact that stripes are more visually interesting makes all the difference when [...]

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Earlier today Dr. Paul Thagard gave a talk as part of Carnegie Mellon’s humanities lecture series, titled “Minds, Mechanics, and Computers.” My Philosophy of Mind class professor, Dr. Andy Norman, told our class about the talk yesterday, and seeing as it was pertinent to this class and my Cog Sci major I figured I’d attend. [...]

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