You Create False Memories of Daily Tasks, Dogs Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field, and There’s No Up or Down in Space

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Learn about why you have false memories of doing daily tasks; how we know that dogs might be able to sense Earth’s magnetic field via magnetoreception; and the science behind why there’s no up or down in space.

Science confirms we create false memories of doing daily tasks by Steffie Drucker

Paper: Mundane behavioral decisions, actions can be “misremembered” as done. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uoia-pmb071720.php
Albarracin, D., Sunderrajan, A., McCulloch, K. C., & Jones, C. (2020). Mistaking an Intention for a Behavior: The Case of Enacting Behavioral Decisions Versus Simply Intending to Enact Them. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 014616722092920. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167220929203

Dogs might be able to sense Earth’s magnetic field by Cameron Duke

Benediktová, K., Adámková, J., Svoboda, J., Painter, M. S., Bartoš, L., Nováková, P., Vynikalová, L., Hart, V., Phillips, J., & Burda, H. (2020). Magnetic alignment enhances homing efficiency of hunting dogs. ELife, 9, e55080. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.55080
Frankel, R. (2014, May 18). Dogs at War: Three-Legged Dog Delivers Crucial Message in WWI. Nationalgeographic.com. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/5/140516-dogs-war-canines-soldiers-troops-army-military/
Hart, V., Nováková, P., Malkemper, E. P., Begall, S., Hanzal, V., Ježek, M., Kušta, T., Němcová, V., Adámková, J., Benediktová, K., Červený, J., & Burda, H. (2013). Dogs are sensitive to small variations of the Earth’s magnetic field. Frontiers in Zoology, 10(1), 80. https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80
Yirka, B. (2020, July 20). Dogs may use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate. Phys.org. https://phys.org/news/2020-07-dogs-earth-magnetic-field.html

In Outer Space, There Is No Up or Down by Joanie Faletto

Saadeh, D., Feeney, S. M., Pontzen, A., Peiris, H. V., & McEwen, J. D. (2016). How Isotropic is the Universe? Physical Review Letters, 117(13). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.117.131302
in. (2016, September 7). It’s official: You’re lost in a directionless universe. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/it-s-official-you-re-lost-directionless-universe

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:04.8	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about why you have
0:09.5	false memories of doing daily tasks, how we know that dogs might be able to sense Earth's magnetic
0:15.2	field, and the science behind why there's no up or down in space.
0:19.8	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:22.4	We're all guilty of it.
0:24.0	You could have sworn you answered that text message,
0:26.0	but it turns out you left your friend on red.
0:29.0	Brutal.
0:31.0	You thought you turned the dryer on,
0:32.0	but your laundry is still sopping wet when you go to take it out.
0:36.0	Well, a new study explains why this happens.
0:38.0	It turns out that our brains sometimes mistake our intention to do a task for actually having done it.
0:46.0	To learn more about the cause of this confusion, scientists at the University of Illinois
0:50.4	designed five experiments that asked participants to hire fake models for a fake clothing catalog.
0:57.0	To do that, they had to screen resumes, a repetitive task that was made more complicated when an intern mistakenly
1:05.6	mismatched some of the photos and applications.
1:09.2	The correct and mismatched applications were each labeled that way.
1:13.8	If a correct application came up,
1:15.8	the participant was asked to make a final hiring decision.
1:19.4	If the application was mismatched,
1:21.4	they were asked to decide whether they intended to hire or reject the
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