This clip from the documentary “Evolution” shows the development of a new sign language in Nicaragua in the 1980s. This supports an interactionist approach to language acquisition, suggesting that our innate capacity for language must be combined with a social … Read More
Test Your Awareness
Test your awareness with this clever Whodunnit! video demonstrating change blindness
The “Door” Study
This video from Daniel Simons shows original footage from Simons and Levin’s 1998 study demonstrating change blindness in the real world.
Daniel Simons on Change Blindness
Here’s a video showing a clever study by Simons and Chabris on change blindness and featuring an interview with Daniel Simons:
Gradual Change Blindness
You can find several demonstrations of gradual change blindness from J. Kevin O’Regan’s site http://nivea.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/
“Flicker” Change Blindness Demos
You can find some great demonstrations of “flicker” change blindness at http://www.gocognitive.net/demo/change-blindness The demo allows you to adjust the duration of time for each image as well as the duration of the mask screen in between. Longer pauses will make detecting … Read More
Elizabeth Loftus on Suggestibility and Misattribution
Here’s another excellent TEDtalk, this time with Elizabeth Loftus discussing her work on suggestibility and misattribution and how important it is for us to understand that memory is malleable.
Joshua Foer on Learning Mnemonic Techniques
In this TEDtalk Joshua Foer (author of Moonwalking with Einstein – highly recommended!) discusses how he learned about mnemonic techniques and trained to win the U.S.A. Memory Championship in 2006.
Speed Cards World Record
Here’s a video of Simon Reinhard setting the world record for speed card memorization at the World Memoriad in 2010. Simon memorized the order of a shuffled pack of playing cards in 21.90 seconds. Remember that this apparently savant-like ability … Read More
Clive Wearing’s Memory Loss
This video shows the tragic case of Clive Wearing, who suffers from both anterograde amnesia (unable to form new memories) and severe retrograde amnesia (unable to recall past memories) and only recognizes his wife, Deborah. You can also find a touching story … Read More