Neuroscience
For when you've had enough of journal articles:
There are some astoundingly vivid descriptions of panic (p.90) and self-harming (p.145) in Sarah Walter's latest best-selling novel The Night Watch (published by Virago Press), set in London during and immediately after World War II.
Happiness is the new weapon in the drive to recruit the best and brightest new workers.
What shapes the political views that we hold?
Nature has abandoned its open peer review trial, which involved academics commenting publicly on each others' submitted manuscripts online.
Practice makes perfect (via PsyBlog).
Is dyslexia a big, expensive myth?
Go easy on the clear stuff - the effect of too much water on the brain.
- Link Feast
Tuck into 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine, with a special focus on traffic and transport psychology, has been made entirely open access - get PDFs of all the articles, or read it via...
- Feast
Tuck into our round-up of the latest and best psych and neuro links: Does psychological and neuroscience knowledge change how we understand and think about ourselves? Charles Fernyhough explores this very issue in his second novel A Box of Birds. He provides...
- This Message Has Been Sent To You Because Of Your Eminence In The Field.
More Obsequious Science Spam... This one's from Bentham Open. Maybe you or one of your friends have gotten a similar pitch. First, the story circa early 2007. The Open Neuroscience Journal Dear Scientist. Bentham Science Publishers have gained...
- Double-blind Bind
An editorial on peer review was published today in Nature, and the text is reprinted in their Peer-to-Peer blog. The editors are soliciting comments and suggestions, and so far the count is up to 25 48. Working double-blind Should there be author anonymity...
- Anonymous Peer Review Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
The Neurocritic has been feeling reproved this past week, so it's time to post an oldie but goodie about the arbitrary nature of peer review, published in Brain (full-text available free). Might as well take up gambling. Rothwell PM, Martyn CN. Reproducibility...
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For when you've had enough of journal articles:There are some astoundingly vivid descriptions of panic (p.90) and self-harming (p.145) in Sarah Walter's latest best-selling novel The Night Watch (published by Virago Press), set in London during and immediately after World War II.
Happiness is the new weapon in the drive to recruit the best and brightest new workers.
What shapes the political views that we hold?
Nature has abandoned its open peer review trial, which involved academics commenting publicly on each others' submitted manuscripts online.
Practice makes perfect (via PsyBlog).
Is dyslexia a big, expensive myth?
Go easy on the clear stuff - the effect of too much water on the brain.
- Link Feast
Tuck into 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: The latest issue of The Psychologist magazine, with a special focus on traffic and transport psychology, has been made entirely open access - get PDFs of all the articles, or read it via...
- Feast
Tuck into our round-up of the latest and best psych and neuro links: Does psychological and neuroscience knowledge change how we understand and think about ourselves? Charles Fernyhough explores this very issue in his second novel A Box of Birds. He provides...
- This Message Has Been Sent To You Because Of Your Eminence In The Field.
More Obsequious Science Spam... This one's from Bentham Open. Maybe you or one of your friends have gotten a similar pitch. First, the story circa early 2007. The Open Neuroscience Journal Dear Scientist. Bentham Science Publishers have gained...
- Double-blind Bind
An editorial on peer review was published today in Nature, and the text is reprinted in their Peer-to-Peer blog. The editors are soliciting comments and suggestions, and so far the count is up to 25 48. Working double-blind Should there be author anonymity...
- Anonymous Peer Review Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry
The Neurocritic has been feeling reproved this past week, so it's time to post an oldie but goodie about the arbitrary nature of peer review, published in Brain (full-text available free). Might as well take up gambling. Rothwell PM, Martyn CN. Reproducibility...