Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut (plus some other tit-bits):
Did working memory spark creative culture?
How thinking of sex vs. love changes our mode of mental processing. Thinking of love boosts our global processing, including recognition of faces, whereas thoughts of sex boosts our local processing, including the recognition of verbal information.
When victims forgive, it leads them to feel a greater sense of justice.
The content in our working memory can affect our decision making, biasing us to perform tasks that match the content.
Why we're so useless at working out cumulative risk.
People's ability to switch mind sets (measured using executive control tasks) affects their performance on a popular measure of implicit attitudes - the 'implicit association test'.
New Seed magazine feature on the expression of emotion.
Nine neural frontiers (New Scientist cover feature).
Dan Pink on motivation in the latest issue of the RSA's Journal.
Time magazine timeline of our understanding of the human brain.
Can you really train your brain? (Feature in the Indy).
Recent Philip Zimbardo talk at the RSA on time perspectives.
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology: The problem with twin studies (via @mrianleslie). A tendentious view from Slate magazine. For an alternative view, check out the Digest's own guest post on "Why...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits in psychology: "What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?" (Stanford...
- People Who Are Dogmatic Have Poorer Working Memory
People who are narrow-minded and dogmatic have a poorer working memory capacity, which is what makes it harder for them to process new information. That's according to Adam Brown who tested 212 university students on a verbal working memory task....
- Human Or Alien?
To find out, now you too can take the latest Implicit Association Test (IAT)! Human or Alien? Mixing Memory has posted a hilarious summary of a satirical IAT paper, I See Dead People (Taking the Implicit Association Test). The paper bemoans the shocking...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Parietal Function
Haramati S, Soroker N, Dudai Y, & Levy DA. The posterior parietal cortex in recognition memory: A neuropsychological study. Neuropsychologia. 2007 Nov 29 [Epub ahead of print] Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, P.O. Box 26, Rehovot...
Neuroscience
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut (plus some other tit-bits):Did working memory spark creative culture?
How thinking of sex vs. love changes our mode of mental processing. Thinking of love boosts our global processing, including recognition of faces, whereas thoughts of sex boosts our local processing, including the recognition of verbal information.
When victims forgive, it leads them to feel a greater sense of justice.
The content in our working memory can affect our decision making, biasing us to perform tasks that match the content.
Why we're so useless at working out cumulative risk.
People's ability to switch mind sets (measured using executive control tasks) affects their performance on a popular measure of implicit attitudes - the 'implicit association test'.
New Seed magazine feature on the expression of emotion.
Nine neural frontiers (New Scientist cover feature).
Dan Pink on motivation in the latest issue of the RSA's Journal.
Time magazine timeline of our understanding of the human brain.
Can you really train your brain? (Feature in the Indy).
Recent Philip Zimbardo talk at the RSA on time perspectives.
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology: The problem with twin studies (via @mrianleslie). A tendentious view from Slate magazine. For an alternative view, check out the Digest's own guest post on "Why...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits in psychology: "What happened in the basement of the psych building 40 years ago shocked the world. How do the guards, prisoners and researchers in the Stanford Prison Experiment feel about it now?" (Stanford...
- People Who Are Dogmatic Have Poorer Working Memory
People who are narrow-minded and dogmatic have a poorer working memory capacity, which is what makes it harder for them to process new information. That's according to Adam Brown who tested 212 university students on a verbal working memory task....
- Human Or Alien?
To find out, now you too can take the latest Implicit Association Test (IAT)! Human or Alien? Mixing Memory has posted a hilarious summary of a satirical IAT paper, I See Dead People (Taking the Implicit Association Test). The paper bemoans the shocking...
- Neuropsychology Abstract Of The Day: Parietal Function
Haramati S, Soroker N, Dudai Y, & Levy DA. The posterior parietal cortex in recognition memory: A neuropsychological study. Neuropsychologia. 2007 Nov 29 [Epub ahead of print] Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science, P.O. Box 26, Rehovot...