{"id":8912,"date":"2017-09-07T12:59:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/?p=8912"},"modified":"2017-09-07T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T17:04:21","slug":"jim-davies-can-catch-ball-dont-know-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/2017\/jim-davies-can-catch-ball-dont-know-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Davies: New article &#8211; How We Can Catch a Ball When We Don&#8217;t Know Where It Will Be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8913\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball-240x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball-240x196.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball-160x131.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cognitivescience\/wp-content\/uploads\/ball.png 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Jim Davies, of Carleton University\u2019s Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science, has a post on the Psychology Today blog that was selected as an essential topic. It describes his research done with Carleton Cognitive Science Ph.D. student Jay Jennings on how our minds use two different ideas of how objects move in the world&#8211;one for what we think, and another for how we act. People tend to think (incorrectly) that a ball emerging from a curved tube will continue to travel in a curved path, but when they try to actually catch the ball, they don\u2019t make the same error. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-science-imagination\/201709\/how-we-can-catch-ball-when-we-dont-know-where-it-will-be\">https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/the-science-imagination\/201709\/how-we-can-catch-ball-when-we-dont-know-where-it-will-be<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Davies, of Carleton University\u2019s Institute of Cognitive Science and School of Computer Science, has a post on the Psychology Today blog that was selected as an essential topic. 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