Neuroscience
For when you've had enough of journal articles:
Hollywood actress Natalie Portman is a cognitive neuroscientist.
Workaholics Anonymous has launched in America - the trouble is people are too busy to attend.
Does the language of the Pirahã tribe challenge Chomsky's theory of universal grammar?
Academic Benjamin Gray gives a first-hand account of what it's like to hear voices that other people can't hear. "I learned several important lessons: never admit you hear voices; certainly never answer them...."
Surviving boredom.
The psychology of suicide bombers. "It is hard to get our heads around the idea that someone who is great with children might, given the right (or wrong) situation, be more easily persuaded by extremists into killing (and being killed) for a cause. But that is the extraordinary lesson that we must take on board about the 7/7 bombers: that they were ordinary."
Following our guest feature on psychological research in virtual worlds, the online realm of Second Life was the focus of the Guardian's latest weekly science podcast.
- What's It Like To Hear Voices That Aren't There?
Traditionally, when a person says they can hear voices that don't exist in external reality (not to be confused with inner speaking), psychiatry has treated this as a sign of mental illness. However, it's become clear in recent years that many...
- The Same Voices, Heard Differently?
It isn't just people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who claim to hear voices inside their heads. Many other people do too. However, a key difference between psychiatric and non-psychiatric voice hearers is that the latter usually claim not to be...
- All About Music And The Brain
Today's Science Weekly Podcast from The Guardian is a fascinating special on music and the brain. Music is found in every human culture and one theory is that it was an evolutionary precursor to language. Whereas language allows us to make propositional,...
- Woman Hears Speech-impaired Voices
The case of a woman who started hearing speech-impaired voices after a bike accident, has lent support to the idea that auditory hallucinations can be caused by people misidentifying their own inner voice as not belonging to them. The 63-year-old woman...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: 'A head injury changed my life': a former army cadet recalls life after a car crash. Is it wrong to teach children about feelings? The boredom epidemic affecting workers. A marriage devoted...
Neuroscience
Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles:Hollywood actress Natalie Portman is a cognitive neuroscientist.
Workaholics Anonymous has launched in America - the trouble is people are too busy to attend.
Does the language of the Pirahã tribe challenge Chomsky's theory of universal grammar?
Academic Benjamin Gray gives a first-hand account of what it's like to hear voices that other people can't hear. "I learned several important lessons: never admit you hear voices; certainly never answer them...."
Surviving boredom.
The psychology of suicide bombers. "It is hard to get our heads around the idea that someone who is great with children might, given the right (or wrong) situation, be more easily persuaded by extremists into killing (and being killed) for a cause. But that is the extraordinary lesson that we must take on board about the 7/7 bombers: that they were ordinary."
Following our guest feature on psychological research in virtual worlds, the online realm of Second Life was the focus of the Guardian's latest weekly science podcast.
- What's It Like To Hear Voices That Aren't There?
Traditionally, when a person says they can hear voices that don't exist in external reality (not to be confused with inner speaking), psychiatry has treated this as a sign of mental illness. However, it's become clear in recent years that many...
- The Same Voices, Heard Differently?
It isn't just people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who claim to hear voices inside their heads. Many other people do too. However, a key difference between psychiatric and non-psychiatric voice hearers is that the latter usually claim not to be...
- All About Music And The Brain
Today's Science Weekly Podcast from The Guardian is a fascinating special on music and the brain. Music is found in every human culture and one theory is that it was an evolutionary precursor to language. Whereas language allows us to make propositional,...
- Woman Hears Speech-impaired Voices
The case of a woman who started hearing speech-impaired voices after a bike accident, has lent support to the idea that auditory hallucinations can be caused by people misidentifying their own inner voice as not belonging to them. The 63-year-old woman...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: 'A head injury changed my life': a former army cadet recalls life after a car crash. Is it wrong to teach children about feelings? The boredom epidemic affecting workers. A marriage devoted...