Who Wants To Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire? 65
ThePolynomial writes "Last night Ogi Ogas, a cognitive neuroscientist and Homeland Security Fellow, became the first person to face the million-dollar question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? in three years. He now has a first-person narrative on seedmagazine.com where he describes using techniques from cognitive science to think of answers on the show." From the article: "I used priming on my $16,000 question: 'This past spring, which country first published inflammatory cartoons of the prophet Mohammed?' I did not know the answer. But I did know I had a long conversation with my friend Gena about the cartoons. So I chatted with Meredith about Gena. I tried to remember where we discussed the cartoons and the way Gena flutters his hands. As I pictured how he rolls his eyes to express disdain, Gena's remark popped into my mind: 'What else would you expect from Denmark?'"
Priming (Score:5, Insightful)
Seems like winning makes right (Score:5, Insightful)
So what (Score:4, Insightful)
Frankly, the people who do those memory competitions are far more impressive than this guy, but at least they don't write 4 page essays on how clever they think they were.
Re: not correct (Score:3, Insightful)
that is a horribly phrased sentence. The editors should have corrected it to read:
Last night Ogi Ogas, a cognitive neuroscientist and Homeland Security Fellow, became
the first person in three years to face the million-dollar question on 'Who Wants to
Be a Millionaire?'
fsck, this is like using digg. Make with the 24 bit ints and threaded comments!
Special cognitive science techniques (Score:4, Insightful)
-dZ.
Re:Uh (Score:1, Insightful)
Judging from this question, "This past spring, which country first published inflammatory cartoons of the prophet Mohammed?", it seems they do ask questions other than pop culture, unless you count political current events as "pop culture".