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The cognitive timeline, part 2: Determining meaning and value

March 22, 2015 0 Comments
The cognitive timeline, part 2: Determining meaning and value

When we bind impressions with meanings and value, we create concepts or conceptualizations of those impressions. This process of conceptualizing is so fast and automatic that we barely realize it’s happening. But it’s incredibly important to how we interpret and respond to the world. Early psychologists used to think of conceptualization as just another part […]

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The cognitive timeline, part 1: Forming impressions

March 12, 2015 0 Comments
The cognitive timeline, part 1: Forming impressions

“Common sense” tells the average non-scientist that our eyes and ears act like video recorders, creating an accurate recording of the world around us that we then access through memory when and where we need to. The feeling we all have in our conscious minds is that we pretty accurately perceive everything in the world […]

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From measures to metrics: A fresh look at automated facial coding

March 4, 2015 2 Comments
From measures to metrics: A fresh look at automated facial coding

Recently one of my favorite neuromarketing methodologies, automated facial coding (AFC), seems to have burst into the research mainstream. Within one week in January, Rana el Kaliouby, co-founder of Affectiva, was the recipient of a glowing profile in the New Yorker and Paul Ekman, undisputed guru of facial coding and scientific advisor to Emotient, received […]

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How our brains take in and interpret the world around us

March 2, 2015 0 Comments
How our brains take in and interpret the world around us

This is the first is a series of posts about the cognitive processes that underlie consumer responses to marketing, advertising, products, brands, shopping, and entertainment. In contrast to earlier models of thought that focused only on conscious mental processes, modern neuroscience, social psychology, and behavioral economics give us a much more realistic, but also more […]

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