26 questions · 17 almanac · 1 findings

Developmental and Cognitive Psychology

How thinking and perception develop and operate.

Almanac Software That Knows a Cat's Typing
  • How does PawSense distinguish a cat's keystrokes from a human's?
  • What does PawSense require to unlock the keyboard once it detects a cat?
Almanac Everyone Does It, Nobody Says So
  • What did the 200-adolescent survey by Andrade and Srihari find about the prevalence of nose-picking?
  • How many episodes of nose-picking per day did most survey respondents report?
Almanac The Bowl That Never Seemed to Empty
  • How did Brian Wansink's self-refilling soup bowls work?
  • How much more soup did people eat from the self-refilling bowls, and did they feel fuller?
  • What does the bottomless bowl experiment reveal about how people judge how much they've eaten?
Almanac Leaning Left Changes the Number
  • How did leaning left or right on a Wii balance board affect participants' numerical estimates?
  • What is the mental number line, and why do Western subjects associate small numbers with the left?
Almanac Sausage Cultured From Baby Stool
  • Why did researchers look to infant faeces as a source of bacteria for fermenting sausage?
  • What properties make infant gut bacteria well suited to meat fermentation and possible probiotic benefit?
Almanac Graph Paper Draped Over the World
  • How do grid cells in the entorhinal cortex tile space in a repeating triangular lattice?
  • Why is loss of navigational ability often one of the earliest symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?
Almanac A Machine to Change the Nappy
  • What open question does the patent leave about whether infants would tolerate being changed by a machine?
Almanac What the Eyebrows Give Away
  • How did researchers measure narcissism independently before testing whether it showed in the face?