RE: [xmca] groundbreaking research using categorization tasks

[jose david herazo <jherazo4@hotmail.com>]

Feliz Cumpleaños Mike!!!!

Thanks for providing thoughts to sharpen our minds!!!

JOSE DAVID HERAZO RIVERA

Foreign Languages Department, Universidad de Córdoba 
(Montería - Colombia)

Carrera 6 No. 76-103. Tel:  7860500 - 7909800

www.unicordoba.edu.co

> Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 19:08:17 +0300
> Subject: Re: [xmca] groundbreaking research using categorization tasks
> From: kplakits@gmail.com
> To: xmca@weber.ucsd.edu
> 
> Happy birthday Mice.
> Katerina
> Στις 13 Απρ 2012 6:22 ΜΜ, ο χρήστης "Luisa Aires" <laires11@gmail.com>
> έγραψε:
> 
> > Happy birthday Mike :-)
> > Luísa
> >
> > On 13 April 2012 15:24, Martin Kramer <mkramer65@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi there,
> > > I've been following the discussions here frequently. Glad to have found
> > > them. Much of them still too difficult for me to follow (though I'm
> > slowly
> > > catching up). This one needed no further explanation...
> > >
> > >   1. Happy birthday to Mike Cole!
> > >   2. I'm bound to do some experimenting this weekend ;-)
> > >
> > > thanks for sharing!
> > > Martin,
> > > Austria
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2012/4/13 mike Cole <lchcmike@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > > Just think what an equal amount of vodka could accomplish!
> > > > :-)
> > > > Mike
> > > >
> > > > On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:07 AM, Peter Smagorinsky <smago@uga.edu> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > As AERA begins, and as we wish Mike Cole a happy birthday today, I
> > > think
> > > > it's appropriate to acknowledge that the sort of categorizing tasks
> > that
> > > > Luria used in Uzbekistan, and that Mike and Sylvia Scribner adapted in
> > > > Liberia, are still being used to study the recesses of the human mind.
> > > For
> > > > your consideration:
> > > > >
> > > > > Study: Beer fuels male creativity
> > > > > 10:57 am April 12, 2012, by George Mathis
> > > > > It's long been known that beer makes women prettier, but a new study
> > > > concludes beer also makes men more creative.
> > > > > The New York Daily News reports<
> > > >
> > >
> > http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/beer-men-smarter-study-article-1.1059752?localLinksEnabled=false
> > > >
> > > > the experiment, like most really good ones, was conducted in a bar. The
> > > > article does not say who paid for the study, but I'm thinking it was a
> > > > group of men or a beer company.
> > > > > "We found at 0.07 blood alcohol, people were worse at working memory
> > > > tasks, but they were better at creative problem-solving tasks,"
> > > > psychologist Jennifer Wiley, who presumably was not drinking, says in
> > the
> > > > article, which I have forwarded to my wife.
> > > > > Wiley parrots what any man who has had to come up with an excuse for
> > > > running late while sitting on a bar stool will tell you: "Sometimes the
> > > > really creative stuff comes out when you're [drinking]."
> > > > > For the experiment, conducted by University of Illinois researchers,
> > a
> > > > group of 40 men was given three words and asked to provide a fourth
> > word
> > > > that fits a pattern. For example, "marine mammal," "Heidi Klum,"
> > > "divorce"
> > > > could be followed by "Seal."
> > > > > Half the men remained dimwittingly sober, while the other half was
> > > given
> > > > two pints (hopefully of a microbrew) and likely began flirting with
> > > > waitresses and/or researchers.
> > > > > The men who drank solved 40% more of the problems than their sober
> > > > counterparts. Also, the drinkers finished their problems in 12 seconds
> > > > while it took the non-drinkers 15.5 seconds, the Daily News reports.
> > > > > Women did not participate in the study, perhaps because men can't
> > think
> > > > straight around such delightful creatures, according to an earlier
> > study<
> > > >
> > >
> > http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/study-finds-men-suffer-mental-decline-thinking-women-article-1.1038382
> > > > >.
> > > > > The Daily News article also cites the literary genius of famed
> > drinkers
> > > > Ernest Hemingway and Charles Bukowski, but not George Mathis.
> > > > > Alas, it was almost the perfect scientific study.
> > > > >
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