Neuroscience
I'm sorry some readers have had problems with the links in their latest Digest email newsletter (issue 96), particularly in the extras section. The correct links are given below.
Memories for sexual trauma are not repressed, rather they are associated with greater vividness and sensory detail.
Personality, not job satisfaction, is the key predictor of job performance.
Mirror-touch synesthesia: the feeling of being touched when you see someone else touched.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: A longitudinal study of children's text messaging and literacy development. First ever mapping of women's genitals as represented in the sensory cortex of the female brain. "Vaginal, clitoral,...
- Why Is A Touch On The Arm So Persuasive?
A gentle touch on the arm can be surprisingly persuasive. Consider these research findings. Library users who are touched while registering, rate the library and its personnel more favourably than the non-touched; diners are more satisfied and give larger...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Many of us misunderstand mirrors. How to Gain Eleven IQ Points in Ten Minutes: Thinking Aloud Improves Raven's Matrices Performance in Older Adults. Well-Being Is Related to Having Less Small...
- The Power Of A Light Touch On The Arm
A good-looking man approached 120 women in a night club over a period of three weeks, and asked them to dance. It was in the name of science – the man was an assistant to the psychologist Nicolas Guegen. Remarkably, of the 60 women who he touched lightly...
- Rabbit Illusion Tricks The Brain Too
Like a kind of neural Voodoo doll, there’s a representation of our body in our brain, so that when we’re touched on, say, our left arm, the brain’s representation of our left arm is activated. So what do you think would happen in a tactile illusion...
Neuroscience
Extras
I'm sorry some readers have had problems with the links in their latest Digest email newsletter (issue 96), particularly in the extras section. The correct links are given below.Memories for sexual trauma are not repressed, rather they are associated with greater vividness and sensory detail.
Personality, not job satisfaction, is the key predictor of job performance.
Mirror-touch synesthesia: the feeling of being touched when you see someone else touched.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: A longitudinal study of children's text messaging and literacy development. First ever mapping of women's genitals as represented in the sensory cortex of the female brain. "Vaginal, clitoral,...
- Why Is A Touch On The Arm So Persuasive?
A gentle touch on the arm can be surprisingly persuasive. Consider these research findings. Library users who are touched while registering, rate the library and its personnel more favourably than the non-touched; diners are more satisfied and give larger...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Many of us misunderstand mirrors. How to Gain Eleven IQ Points in Ten Minutes: Thinking Aloud Improves Raven's Matrices Performance in Older Adults. Well-Being Is Related to Having Less Small...
- The Power Of A Light Touch On The Arm
A good-looking man approached 120 women in a night club over a period of three weeks, and asked them to dance. It was in the name of science – the man was an assistant to the psychologist Nicolas Guegen. Remarkably, of the 60 women who he touched lightly...
- Rabbit Illusion Tricks The Brain Too
Like a kind of neural Voodoo doll, there’s a representation of our body in our brain, so that when we’re touched on, say, our left arm, the brain’s representation of our left arm is activated. So what do you think would happen in a tactile illusion...