Fun facts from Cognitive Science revision

• There’s a superior olive in your brain
• Some scientists approximate that as much as 10% of the entire spoken English language is ə (it’s called schwa)
• If something changed colour at the edge of your vision, you’d probably not notice 
• Eye witness reliability is terrifyingly bad 
• If you have people find the difference between two slightly altered imagines drug abusers will find it quicker if the picture includes some paraphernalia they’d use (e.g. smokers with a lighter)
• Snuck is the newest addition to the group of irregular verbs - it was officially recognized about two centuries ago but is still not used very often
• A frog is physically unable to find dead food, even if you place it right in front of him
• Being sad makes it harder for you to think about happy things. It’s science. (though there’s also been evidence against it so be a bit wary)
• Sleep is potentially its own state of mind (sorry I only have this really old article on it I didn’t have time to get into it more deeply)
• There’s a man who lives in more or less a 30-second time window before forgetting again
• Perception and action might be relatively unrelated to each other (e.g. even if you can’t perceive if someone is holding a pencil vertically or horizontally you can confidently and correctly grasp it)
• People watching movies use their brains in interesting ways