1. "Memory," says cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter, "is highly reconstructive.

2. Humans can see into the future, says a cognitive scientist.

3. The cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter would call them "tightly bonded semantic chunks, " like "pieces of wax that have melted together in the bright sunlight."

4. Antti Revonsuo, a Finnish cognitive scientist, has shown that our amygdala (the fight-or-flight piece of the brain) fires more than normal when we're in REM sleep (the time in sleep when we dream).

5. Commander Dylan Schmorrow, a cognitive scientist with the navy, devised a crown of sensors to monitor activity in the brain such as blood flow and oxygen levels.

6. A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for Your Classroom, typically posts on the first and third Mondays of each month.

7. One cognitive scientist, David Geary, argues that as human society grows increasingly complex, individuals don't need to be as intelligent in order to survive and reproduce.

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8. With Wildlife Conservation Society cognitive scientist Diana Reiss, Lori Marino showed that bottlenose dolphins can use mirrors to investigate marks hidden on their bodies.

9. "One possibility is that we judge people's characters from their faces—whether they are honest, kind, and smart," says Steven Pinker, a cognitive scientist at Harvard.

10. Music and melody seem to have a unique place in memory, Amherst College cognitive scientist Matthew Schulkind suggests.

11. "Once the brain has a goal in mind, it tunes the perceptual system to search the environment" for relevant clues, said Steven Sloman, a cognitive scientist at Brown University.

12. Coincidences seem to be the source for some of our greatest irrationalities A cognitive scientist at M. I. T.

13. Language lacks the periodic rhythms found in music, so it's unlikely that Mathieu's problem affects speech perception, remarks cognitive scientist Josh McDermott of New York University.