Neuroscience
Eye-catching articles that didn't make the final cut:
What's the point of an elaborate recruitment process if employers are biased by what they already know about candidates? A new study looks at whether recruiters are able to ignore this preliminary information.
Can people who hear voices be led to perceive those voices as less hostile and malevolent? Compassionate mind training could be one solution.
Changing women's feelings about maths.
Making choices is mentally exhausting, such that it leaves us with less self-control (pdf).
- What's It Like To Hear Voices That Aren't There?
Traditionally, when a person says they can hear voices that don't exist in external reality (not to be confused with inner speaking), psychiatry has treated this as a sign of mental illness. However, it's become clear in recent years that many...
- The Same Voices, Heard Differently?
It isn't just people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who claim to hear voices inside their heads. Many other people do too. However, a key difference between psychiatric and non-psychiatric voice hearers is that the latter usually claim not to be...
- Woman Hears Speech-impaired Voices
The case of a woman who started hearing speech-impaired voices after a bike accident, has lent support to the idea that auditory hallucinations can be caused by people misidentifying their own inner voice as not belonging to them. The 63-year-old woman...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: Hollywood actress Natalie Portman is a cognitive neuroscientist. Workaholics Anonymous has launched in America - the trouble is people are too busy to attend. Does the language of the Pirahã tribe challenge...
- Fmri Neuroimaging Of Neural Control Over Speech
Inside the mind of an actor (literally) How does an actor engage with the part they are playing? Fiona Shaw undergoes a brain scan while reciting TS Eliot to help shed some light on the mystery Stuart Jeffries The Guardian Tuesday 24 November 2009 [snip]...
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Eye-catching articles that didn't make the final cut:What's the point of an elaborate recruitment process if employers are biased by what they already know about candidates? A new study looks at whether recruiters are able to ignore this preliminary information.
Can people who hear voices be led to perceive those voices as less hostile and malevolent? Compassionate mind training could be one solution.
Changing women's feelings about maths.
Making choices is mentally exhausting, such that it leaves us with less self-control (pdf).
- What's It Like To Hear Voices That Aren't There?
Traditionally, when a person says they can hear voices that don't exist in external reality (not to be confused with inner speaking), psychiatry has treated this as a sign of mental illness. However, it's become clear in recent years that many...
- The Same Voices, Heard Differently?
It isn't just people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia who claim to hear voices inside their heads. Many other people do too. However, a key difference between psychiatric and non-psychiatric voice hearers is that the latter usually claim not to be...
- Woman Hears Speech-impaired Voices
The case of a woman who started hearing speech-impaired voices after a bike accident, has lent support to the idea that auditory hallucinations can be caused by people misidentifying their own inner voice as not belonging to them. The 63-year-old woman...
- Elsewhere
For when you've had enough of journal articles: Hollywood actress Natalie Portman is a cognitive neuroscientist. Workaholics Anonymous has launched in America - the trouble is people are too busy to attend. Does the language of the Pirahã tribe challenge...
- Fmri Neuroimaging Of Neural Control Over Speech
Inside the mind of an actor (literally) How does an actor engage with the part they are playing? Fiona Shaw undergoes a brain scan while reciting TS Eliot to help shed some light on the mystery Stuart Jeffries The Guardian Tuesday 24 November 2009 [snip]...