Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Psychologists who study babies need to consider whether their little participants are weighed down with too much clothing or equipment.
The executive secretarial task - an ecologically valid test of executive function.
Theory of mind, or being able to think about other people's mental states, continues to improve between late adolescence and adulthood.
Children raised bilingual show superior conversational awareness and understanding.
Hypnosis as a research method.
A light touch from a doctor on the arm of a patient improves adherence to drug treatment.
Fathers, like mothers, show a bias for holding babies on their left-hand side.
People's Facebook profiles reflect their actual personality, not an idealised version of it.
- Babies Raised In A Bilingual Home Show Enhanced Cognitive Control
People used to think that being raised bilingual could be harmful to a child's language development. A new study adds to a growing literature showing that the opposite is true. Agnes Kovacs and Jacques Mehler tested the ability of 7-month-old pre-lingual...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle prefer bigger pupils - the kind found in eyes, not schools. Belief in an essentialist ("ethnic") definition of nationality is linked with negative...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: This sounds familiar: a memory-based account of deja vu (pdf). The kind of streets older people like to walk down. Examining why we remember so much more from adolescence and early adulthood than...
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Eye-catching studies that I didn't get a chance to report on in full: The personality profile of people who get bullied at work. Adults with autism are better than healthy controls at dividing their attention. The biological basis of the nocebo...
- Mothers' Reading Style Affects Children's Later Understanding Of Other People's Minds
The use of cognitive verbs like 'think', 'know', 'remember' and 'believe' by mothers when reading picture books to their children has a beneficial effect on their children's later ability to understand other people's...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:Psychologists who study babies need to consider whether their little participants are weighed down with too much clothing or equipment.
The executive secretarial task - an ecologically valid test of executive function.
Theory of mind, or being able to think about other people's mental states, continues to improve between late adolescence and adulthood.
Children raised bilingual show superior conversational awareness and understanding.
Hypnosis as a research method.
A light touch from a doctor on the arm of a patient improves adherence to drug treatment.
Fathers, like mothers, show a bias for holding babies on their left-hand side.
People's Facebook profiles reflect their actual personality, not an idealised version of it.
- Babies Raised In A Bilingual Home Show Enhanced Cognitive Control
People used to think that being raised bilingual could be harmful to a child's language development. A new study adds to a growing literature showing that the opposite is true. Agnes Kovacs and Jacques Mehler tested the ability of 7-month-old pre-lingual...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women in the fertile phase of their menstrual cycle prefer bigger pupils - the kind found in eyes, not schools. Belief in an essentialist ("ethnic") definition of nationality is linked with negative...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: This sounds familiar: a memory-based account of deja vu (pdf). The kind of streets older people like to walk down. Examining why we remember so much more from adolescence and early adulthood than...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that I didn't get a chance to report on in full: The personality profile of people who get bullied at work. Adults with autism are better than healthy controls at dividing their attention. The biological basis of the nocebo...
- Mothers' Reading Style Affects Children's Later Understanding Of Other People's Minds
The use of cognitive verbs like 'think', 'know', 'remember' and 'believe' by mothers when reading picture books to their children has a beneficial effect on their children's later ability to understand other people's...