I'm very surprised that you mentioned the family IQ article, mainly because I remember reading the same article in the NY Times a week or two ago. I both agreed and disagreed with what Carey, the article author, was arguing. Firstly, I disagree in that I don't necessarily feel that the elder sibling has a greater capacity to succeed than his/her siblings. While the elder sibling may be smarter, I definitely don't feel that they are more confident as growing kids. I agree, though, that the elder sibling has an intellectual edge over the other children because of the parental tendency to focus more energy on the grown child. Anyway, I just thought that I'd offer my opinion of the article and I'm looking forward to a great summer!
Nishant
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Eye-tracking, attention, and advertising
(The red spots on the image are areas that people paid the most attention/spent the most looking time.)As a follow-up to Phillip's eye-tracking question (and lead-in to the next class on Perception and Attention), I wanted to share a summary of research findings related to website looking behavior and ads.
I also just came across a recent Wired article that talks about eye-tracking and digital billboards. Pretty interesting stuff.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
How to get started on our blog
I'm looking forward to our class tomorrow and meeting all of you!
I-Chant and I decided to have a blog for our class this year because we wanted to have another way for all of you to contribute and communicate outside the classroom. It's the first time that we've used a blog as a course component, and I'm very interested to see how it develops throughout the summer!
If you haven't used Blogger before, you'll need a Google account to sign in and use the service. If you don't have an account, you can easily create one here.
I'll email you an invitation to be authors on our blog. By the way, if you have a preferred email account (you might check some other account more than your Stanford one), email me to let me know.
I-Chant and I decided to have a blog for our class this year because we wanted to have another way for all of you to contribute and communicate outside the classroom. It's the first time that we've used a blog as a course component, and I'm very interested to see how it develops throughout the summer!
If you haven't used Blogger before, you'll need a Google account to sign in and use the service. If you don't have an account, you can easily create one here.
I'll email you an invitation to be authors on our blog. By the way, if you have a preferred email account (you might check some other account more than your Stanford one), email me to let me know.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Welcome!
Welcome to the Stanford Summer Cognitive Psychology blog! I am really excited and looking forward to our class this summer. For me, this class will be a great opportunity to remember all the parts of cognitive psychology that made me want to become a researcher. I hope you will find cognitive psychology as inspiring as I do.
This blog is a space for all of us to discuss ideas, questions, comments that come up in the course. They can be based on our textbook, lectures, journal articles, discussions, or just your observations in the real world. Please also feel free to share links or other online resources. For example, the New York Times recently published this article about IQ and whether family dynamics and birth order affect your IQ. The article even quotes Stanford psychologist, Robert Zajonc. I have one brother much younger than me, and I think we had very different roles in the family. Could this have affected our IQs? What about other parts of our cognition? How useful is it to think of our intelligence in terms of an IQ anyway? I would like to take a closer look at the study to see how they conducted the experiment and whether they consider some of these questions. We will be discussing human intelligence at the end of the summer, so these questions will definitely come up again.
This blog is a space for all of us to discuss ideas, questions, comments that come up in the course. They can be based on our textbook, lectures, journal articles, discussions, or just your observations in the real world. Please also feel free to share links or other online resources. For example, the New York Times recently published this article about IQ and whether family dynamics and birth order affect your IQ. The article even quotes Stanford psychologist, Robert Zajonc. I have one brother much younger than me, and I think we had very different roles in the family. Could this have affected our IQs? What about other parts of our cognition? How useful is it to think of our intelligence in terms of an IQ anyway? I would like to take a closer look at the study to see how they conducted the experiment and whether they consider some of these questions. We will be discussing human intelligence at the end of the summer, so these questions will definitely come up again.
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