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Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

A Cognitive Case for Racial Colorblindness

We have to build more productive perceptions of one another…

5 min readApr 8, 2024

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A Cognitive Case for Racial Colorblindness

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Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

No Room in the Poetry Circle for Me

A failed attempt to reclaim the words

4 min readAug 15, 2021

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No Room in the Poetry Circle for Me

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Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

A Space for a Disparate Many

While culture is a social space, it is also harbored by the mind.

7 min readAug 1, 2021

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A Space for a Disparate Many

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Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

Death Discloses a Moving Memory

Memories are fickle; an advantageous character flaw if the side-effects of reframing the past is wisdom and emotional prosperity.

3 min readJul 29, 2021

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Death Discloses a Moving Memory

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Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

Could thoughts of your American identity improve how you process faces from another race?

Let us look hard for shared possibilities by diming color’s blinding shimmer, so that the Other may come into focus.

6 min readJun 9, 2021

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Could thoughts of your American identity improve how you process faces from another race?

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Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

All Black people look alike: The unsettled cross-race effect, settles an old dispute.

It is not that the Other lacks distinction, it is that we fail to notice it.

6 min readSep 16, 2020

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All Black people look alike: The unsettled cross-race effect, settles an old dispute.

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Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

Why you had to tell grandma about your trip to the zoo.

In Katherine Nelson’s 1993 article, she introduced me to language’s role in the development of autobiographical memory.

2 min readSep 2, 2020

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Why you had to tell grandma about your trip to the zoo.

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Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

Prof. Benjamin U Marsh & The Cognitive Crumbs

I am a cognitive psychologist specializing in how language and culture mediate memory. My essays apply cognitive research to the current conundrums.

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