Who Wants To Be a Cognitive Neuroscientist Millionaire?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday November 9, 2006 @07:39AM from the science-beats-voodoo-any-old-day-of-the-week dept.

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?'"

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Dun dun dundun da da da daaa! by Stanistani · 2006-11-09 07:41 · Score: 3, Funny

D. William

Dammit, Dammit, Dammit!

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Did better than this guy... by nmb3000 · 2006-11-09 07:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Not else everyone did so well...

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Just pre-guess random answers by caluml · 2006-11-09 10:57 · Score: 2, Funny

Just pre-guess random answers.
a,b,a,a,d,c,b,a,c,b,d,b,d,c,b - did I win? It's only a 1 in 4^15 chance (is my maths working?). Hmm. That's a billion. Might take a while to do it. But brute-forcing it will work.

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