Neuroscience
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 at other times of life - the so-called reminiscence bump.
Young children have difficulty recognising the facial expression of disgust.
How jurors interpret withdrawn confessions.
Allow me to introduce the reverse zombie: a person who has consciousness but no outward signs of awareness, as opposed to the classic zombie who appears to be conscious but is actually dead inside.
- 31 Terrifying Psychology Links For Halloween!
Spook me, please: What psychology tells us about the appeal of Halloween What do young children know about managing fear? Irrational human decision making during a zombie apocalypse. Extreme fear experienced without the amygdala. How to make a zombie...
- 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...
- El Día De Los Políticos Muertos
Zombie image from Zombie John McCain for President. Today is the Day of the Dead (for those of you who celebrate El Día de los Muertos, no offense is intended). The actual holiday has nothing to do with zombies. According to The Museum of New Mexico...
- Déjà Vu, All Over Again
Today's Science Times in the New York Times has a piece about the phenomenon of déjà vu: Déjà Vu: If It All Seems Familiar, There May Be a Reason By BENEDICT CAREY Excerpt: ...But the point, psychologists who study memory say, is that...
- More Than Déjà Vu?
Some interesting insight into memory, déjà vu, déjà veçu, and more from today's New York Times magazine: July 2, 2006 Déjà Vu, Again and Again By EVAN RATLIFF People with a syndrome called déjà vécu spend much of their time living through...
Neuroscience
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 at other times of life - the so-called reminiscence bump.
Young children have difficulty recognising the facial expression of disgust.
How jurors interpret withdrawn confessions.
Allow me to introduce the reverse zombie: a person who has consciousness but no outward signs of awareness, as opposed to the classic zombie who appears to be conscious but is actually dead inside.
- 31 Terrifying Psychology Links For Halloween!
Spook me, please: What psychology tells us about the appeal of Halloween What do young children know about managing fear? Irrational human decision making during a zombie apocalypse. Extreme fear experienced without the amygdala. How to make a zombie...
- 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...
- El Día De Los Políticos Muertos
Zombie image from Zombie John McCain for President. Today is the Day of the Dead (for those of you who celebrate El Día de los Muertos, no offense is intended). The actual holiday has nothing to do with zombies. According to The Museum of New Mexico...
- Déjà Vu, All Over Again
Today's Science Times in the New York Times has a piece about the phenomenon of déjà vu: Déjà Vu: If It All Seems Familiar, There May Be a Reason By BENEDICT CAREY Excerpt: ...But the point, psychologists who study memory say, is that...
- More Than Déjà Vu?
Some interesting insight into memory, déjà vu, déjà veçu, and more from today's New York Times magazine: July 2, 2006 Déjà Vu, Again and Again By EVAN RATLIFF People with a syndrome called déjà vécu spend much of their time living through...