Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Students behave in a more helpful manner after listening to Michael Jackson's Heal The World and other songs with prosocial lyrics.
Contributions of Societal Modernity to Cognitive Development: A Comparison of Four Cultures.
'...children of 4 years find a question about what they themselves will need to play in the future harder to answer than a similar question posed about another child.'
The Dodo Bird Verdict - controversial, inevitable and important: a commentary on 30 years of meta-analyses. (The Dodo Bird Verdict is the finding that different therapeutic approaches are generally of similar efficacy.)
What judges, the general public and experts believe about the testimony of eye-witnesses.
Alison Gopnik reviews Stanislas Dehaene's 'Reading in the brain, The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention'.
How Sigmund Freud, his nephew and a box of cigars forever changed American marketing.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: A Systematic Review of Six Decades of Research in Psychopharmacology. Verdict: Huge improvements over time, but could still do better. When exposed to scary stimuli, anxious people experience a...
- Courtroom Confidence Backfires When A Witness Makes An Error
Confidence is extremely convincing – many studies have shown that both real jurors and mock jurors are more likely to believe a courtroom witness who appears confident. But what if a confident witness is seen to make an error? New research by Elizabeth...
- Mymusic On Myspace
Ok, I'll out myself on myspace. Want to be my friend? Ha! Anyway, I've decided to use my myspace to list the musical groups I like, plus a few librarians / libraries. :-) So if you want to know what I'm listening to, head on over to http://myspace.com/cogscilibrarian...
- Speech/music Development In Birds
Great piece on Fresh Air the other day on bird sounds. Includes info. on bioacoustics and how birds learn their songs. On March 29, Terri Gross interviewed Donald Kroodsma, specialist in the interpretation of bird songs. His new book, The Singing Life...
- Why Do Cats Purr?
I posed this question to Brain Boost last week, and I can't stop thinking about the (possible) answer. It's not really current news, but it's so interesting I'm posting it anyway: "A purring cat is not necessarily a happy one; many species-including...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:Students behave in a more helpful manner after listening to Michael Jackson's Heal The World and other songs with prosocial lyrics.
Contributions of Societal Modernity to Cognitive Development: A Comparison of Four Cultures.
'...children of 4 years find a question about what they themselves will need to play in the future harder to answer than a similar question posed about another child.'
The Dodo Bird Verdict - controversial, inevitable and important: a commentary on 30 years of meta-analyses. (The Dodo Bird Verdict is the finding that different therapeutic approaches are generally of similar efficacy.)
What judges, the general public and experts believe about the testimony of eye-witnesses.
Alison Gopnik reviews Stanislas Dehaene's 'Reading in the brain, The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention'.
How Sigmund Freud, his nephew and a box of cigars forever changed American marketing.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: A Systematic Review of Six Decades of Research in Psychopharmacology. Verdict: Huge improvements over time, but could still do better. When exposed to scary stimuli, anxious people experience a...
- Courtroom Confidence Backfires When A Witness Makes An Error
Confidence is extremely convincing – many studies have shown that both real jurors and mock jurors are more likely to believe a courtroom witness who appears confident. But what if a confident witness is seen to make an error? New research by Elizabeth...
- Mymusic On Myspace
Ok, I'll out myself on myspace. Want to be my friend? Ha! Anyway, I've decided to use my myspace to list the musical groups I like, plus a few librarians / libraries. :-) So if you want to know what I'm listening to, head on over to http://myspace.com/cogscilibrarian...
- Speech/music Development In Birds
Great piece on Fresh Air the other day on bird sounds. Includes info. on bioacoustics and how birds learn their songs. On March 29, Terri Gross interviewed Donald Kroodsma, specialist in the interpretation of bird songs. His new book, The Singing Life...
- Why Do Cats Purr?
I posed this question to Brain Boost last week, and I can't stop thinking about the (possible) answer. It's not really current news, but it's so interesting I'm posting it anyway: "A purring cat is not necessarily a happy one; many species-including...