Neuroscience
For when you've had enough of journal articles:
Free will is not an illusion.
Pretty pictures of neural connections in mice. From the Guardian: "Using genetic tricks and fluorescent proteins researchers at Harvard have individually labeled hundreds of individual nerve cells with 90 different colour combinations. The end result they call a 'brainbow'"
A lack of sleep is having a detrimental effect on children's cognitive development.
A brief history of manic-depressive illness.
Take part in London-based research into the neuropsychology of hypnosis.
Nine propaganda techniques in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
Psychology A-level teachers - check out the new website of the ATP conference to be held in Lincoln in 2008.
Podcasts:
On recent issues of the Guardian Science Podcast: Imperial College geneticist Armand Leroi dissected James Watson's controversial remarks on race and intelligence (mp3); and the ubiquitous Steve Pinker discussed the relationship between language and thought (mp3).
On ABC radio's All in the Mind, you guessed it, Steve Pinker again (mp3), and in the latest issue, does mental health really affect physical well-being? (mp3)
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Will they ever let him rest? Researchers in the USA attempt to simulate the damage suffered by Phineas Gage to the white-matter tracts of his brain (no easy feat given that Gage's brain...
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links. New brains exhibition (free entry) at London's Wellcome Collection "Brains: The Mind as Matter" has now opened. Includes samples from Albert Einstein's brain. There's a new pictorial...
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Our round-up of the latest juicy psychology links from around the web: One time that psychology came to their rescue. In case you missed it: leading psychologists help mark 200 issues of the BPS Research Digest email by sharing their stories. A History...
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Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits in the world of psychology: "All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen I'll make you see That this is thriller, thriller night" Michael Jackson. Why do we like scaring ourselves?...
- Finding Cogsci Podcasts
In case you're wondering ... here are some ways to find nifty cognitive science & other podcasts. Here's a Google search trick I use to find podcasts of interviews with folks whom I'd like to hear: inurl:podcast + "name of person" (in...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles:Free will is not an illusion.
Pretty pictures of neural connections in mice. From the Guardian: "Using genetic tricks and fluorescent proteins researchers at Harvard have individually labeled hundreds of individual nerve cells with 90 different colour combinations. The end result they call a 'brainbow'"
A lack of sleep is having a detrimental effect on children's cognitive development.
A brief history of manic-depressive illness.
Take part in London-based research into the neuropsychology of hypnosis.
Nine propaganda techniques in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11.
Psychology A-level teachers - check out the new website of the ATP conference to be held in Lincoln in 2008.
Podcasts:
On recent issues of the Guardian Science Podcast: Imperial College geneticist Armand Leroi dissected James Watson's controversial remarks on race and intelligence (mp3); and the ubiquitous Steve Pinker discussed the relationship between language and thought (mp3).
On ABC radio's All in the Mind, you guessed it, Steve Pinker again (mp3), and in the latest issue, does mental health really affect physical well-being? (mp3)
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Will they ever let him rest? Researchers in the USA attempt to simulate the damage suffered by Phineas Gage to the white-matter tracts of his brain (no easy feat given that Gage's brain...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links. New brains exhibition (free entry) at London's Wellcome Collection "Brains: The Mind as Matter" has now opened. Includes samples from Albert Einstein's brain. There's a new pictorial...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy psychology links from around the web: One time that psychology came to their rescue. In case you missed it: leading psychologists help mark 200 issues of the BPS Research Digest email by sharing their stories. A History...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits in the world of psychology: "All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen I'll make you see That this is thriller, thriller night" Michael Jackson. Why do we like scaring ourselves?...
- Finding Cogsci Podcasts
In case you're wondering ... here are some ways to find nifty cognitive science & other podcasts. Here's a Google search trick I use to find podcasts of interviews with folks whom I'd like to hear: inurl:podcast + "name of person" (in...