{"id":15250,"date":"2023-11-23T13:11:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T18:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=15250"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:36:52","slug":"jim-davies-on-why-did-that-come-to-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2023\/jim-davies-on-why-did-that-come-to-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Davies on why did that come to mind?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Jim Davies on why did that come to mind?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: black;\">When you are asked to think of a zoo animal, how does your mind choose what pops into your consciousness? Jim Davies reports in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal;\">Nautilus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal;\"> magazine about a study suggesting that it is done by weighting certain features in a multi-dimensional feature space. In this case, people tend to call to mind striking, dangerous, large animals. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"jt9ND50Ebr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/why-did-that-come-to-mind-382889\/\">Why Did That Come to Mind?<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Why Did That Come to Mind?&#8221; &#8212; Nautilus\" src=\"https:\/\/nautil.us\/why-did-that-come-to-mind-382889\/embed\/#?secret=ffkJtly4PE#?secret=jt9ND50Ebr\" data-secret=\"jt9ND50Ebr\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are asked to think of a zoo animal, how does your mind choose what pops into your consciousness? Jim Davies reports in Nautilus magazine about a study suggesting that it is done by weighting certain features in a multi-dimensional feature space. 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