Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight:
The role of auditory 'mirror neurons' in human empathy. In monkeys, these cells are activated both when a certain action is performed and when the sound of that action is heard.
Counsellors need to find ways to get clients to talk about difficult experiences they've had with therapy.
How the presence of an audience changes participants' brain response to stories of social or moral transgressions.
What factors affect how much interest and involvement people have in the arts?
Have you spotted a particularly noteworthy psychology paper? - email christian[@]psychologywriter.org.uk
- Extras
Eye-catching articles that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: How do kids become anti-social adults? Teenagers' understanding of legal terms. How world class batsmen anticipate the bowler's delivery. Children prefer people who are lucky....
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: The right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex plays a vital role in our willingness to punish unfair behaviour by others, even at a cost to ourselves. The boundaries between different...
- Extras
Other interesting papers that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: Adults with autistic spectrum disorder have reduced grey matter in the area of the brain thought to contain mirror neurons - brain cells that are active both when someone performs...
- Mirror Neuron Death March
Above image: Jim Peters almost wins the marathon Vancouver, 7 August 1954, with mirror neurons by Rizzolatti & Craighero (2004). Greg Hickok at Talking Brains has a series of posts dismantling the mirror neuron theory of action understanding. Actually,...
- Mirror Neurons In Primary Motor Cortex?
The mirror neurons, it would seem, dissolve the barrier between self and others. I call them "empathy neurons" or "Dalai Llama neurons". -- MIRROR NEURONS AND THE BRAIN IN THE VAT by V.S. Ramachandran Everyone knows what mirror neurons are,...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight:The role of auditory 'mirror neurons' in human empathy. In monkeys, these cells are activated both when a certain action is performed and when the sound of that action is heard.
Counsellors need to find ways to get clients to talk about difficult experiences they've had with therapy.
How the presence of an audience changes participants' brain response to stories of social or moral transgressions.
What factors affect how much interest and involvement people have in the arts?
Have you spotted a particularly noteworthy psychology paper? - email christian[@]psychologywriter.org.uk
- Extras
Eye-catching articles that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: How do kids become anti-social adults? Teenagers' understanding of legal terms. How world class batsmen anticipate the bowler's delivery. Children prefer people who are lucky....
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: The right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex plays a vital role in our willingness to punish unfair behaviour by others, even at a cost to ourselves. The boundaries between different...
- Extras
Other interesting papers that didn't make the final cut this fortnight: Adults with autistic spectrum disorder have reduced grey matter in the area of the brain thought to contain mirror neurons - brain cells that are active both when someone performs...
- Mirror Neuron Death March
Above image: Jim Peters almost wins the marathon Vancouver, 7 August 1954, with mirror neurons by Rizzolatti & Craighero (2004). Greg Hickok at Talking Brains has a series of posts dismantling the mirror neuron theory of action understanding. Actually,...
- Mirror Neurons In Primary Motor Cortex?
The mirror neurons, it would seem, dissolve the barrier between self and others. I call them "empathy neurons" or "Dalai Llama neurons". -- MIRROR NEURONS AND THE BRAIN IN THE VAT by V.S. Ramachandran Everyone knows what mirror neurons are,...