Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
The psychological effects of chronic illness: "...more emphasis should be given to medical conditions in training programmes for psychologists".
When you revise, make sure you take practice tests and get feedback. A study comparing the benefits of testing with either an open or closed-book policy found that "testing enhanced long-term retention more than restudying".
How many internal clocks do we have?
Not everyone is happy with the Mental Health Act 2007: "These ideological changes [in mental health legislation] are set alongside important changes in services, but signify a new potential for mass preventive detention that will confuse detaining professionals, result in unnecessarily complex legal questions, and create a new potential for blame within a profession that has recently been inquiry (and blame) laden".
Brain differences between those who are able to master the sounds of their second language and those who aren't.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: A person's hand movements affect the way we perceive their facial expression. The neural mechanisms that may mediate the enormous influence of social status on human behavior and health. The...
- What Do Criminal Barristers Think Of Psychologists And Psychiatrists?
Most criminal barristers think psychiatrists make more useful expert witnesses than clinical psychologists, with the latter considered to be most appropriate when it comes to determining confession reliability. That's according to a survey of 62 British...
- Are Mental Disorders Real?
How do the public view mental disorders? Do they see them as real entities with some kind of essence, or do they see them as the invention of human culture? And how does their take differ from that of mental health professionals? To find out, Woo-kyoung...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: 'Spot the book' and 'Spot the country' - new tests for estimating people's IQ prior to brain-related illness or injury. The brains of men and women differ in how...
- Desirable Difficulties
I'm not teaching this semester, so what am I doing? Thinking about teaching. Saw a great lecture last week by cognitive psychologist Robert Bjork (article from UConn Advance) of UCLA. His talk was called "How We Learn vs. How We Think We Learn" (pdf...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:The psychological effects of chronic illness: "...more emphasis should be given to medical conditions in training programmes for psychologists".
When you revise, make sure you take practice tests and get feedback. A study comparing the benefits of testing with either an open or closed-book policy found that "testing enhanced long-term retention more than restudying".
How many internal clocks do we have?
Not everyone is happy with the Mental Health Act 2007: "These ideological changes [in mental health legislation] are set alongside important changes in services, but signify a new potential for mass preventive detention that will confuse detaining professionals, result in unnecessarily complex legal questions, and create a new potential for blame within a profession that has recently been inquiry (and blame) laden".
Brain differences between those who are able to master the sounds of their second language and those who aren't.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: A person's hand movements affect the way we perceive their facial expression. The neural mechanisms that may mediate the enormous influence of social status on human behavior and health. The...
- What Do Criminal Barristers Think Of Psychologists And Psychiatrists?
Most criminal barristers think psychiatrists make more useful expert witnesses than clinical psychologists, with the latter considered to be most appropriate when it comes to determining confession reliability. That's according to a survey of 62 British...
- Are Mental Disorders Real?
How do the public view mental disorders? Do they see them as real entities with some kind of essence, or do they see them as the invention of human culture? And how does their take differ from that of mental health professionals? To find out, Woo-kyoung...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: 'Spot the book' and 'Spot the country' - new tests for estimating people's IQ prior to brain-related illness or injury. The brains of men and women differ in how...
- Desirable Difficulties
I'm not teaching this semester, so what am I doing? Thinking about teaching. Saw a great lecture last week by cognitive psychologist Robert Bjork (article from UConn Advance) of UCLA. His talk was called "How We Learn vs. How We Think We Learn" (pdf...