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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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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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