Neuroscience
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links:
You've heard of chic-lit, welcome to neuro-lit ... Charles Fernyhough, Jonah Lehrer and Claudia Hammond discuss neuroscience and novels on the latest issue of BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind (now on iPlayer).
How Google are introducing a new search function that works more like the human brain.
How smartphone apps based on Skinnerian principles are helping people change their lives.
Channel 4 broadcast the latest episode of Hidden Talent, which featured a search for an expert multi-tasker and a super face-recogniser (now available on 4oD).
Psychotherapist struck off by BACP for offering "conversion therapy" for homosexuality loses her appeal. Meanwhile prominent US psychiatrist Robert Spitzer has apologised for a paper he published in 2001, which suggested that such therapy works.
What is the point of psychiatric diagnosis?
Why your body jerks before you fall asleep. And ... how much people sleep on average.
One for the diary - Public lecture, May 28 in London "Do we need friends?"
Check out the latest posts on our sister blog The Occupational Digest on burnout and mavericks.
David Eagleman was on BBC Radio 3 discussing the ethical implications of neuroscience findings (streaming or podcast now available).
Another for the diary - "In conversation with Daniel Kahneman", LSE, London, 1 June.
Worth a look, new book The Moral Molecule, The New Science of What Makes Us Good or Evil.
A history of the British stiff upper lip - how social rules around the expression of emotion have changed through the ages (BBC Radio 4 programme now on iPlayer).
Disappearing Hand Trick has won this year's prize for best illusion.
Pork brains with milk gravy, anyone? Or what about a made-to-order knitted brain hat?
That's all for now, have a great weekend!
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Hear hear! Stop bullying the social sciences - LA Times Op-Ed. Why I am always unlucky but you are always careless - Tom Stafford of Mind Hacks explains. New book that's worth a look,...
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: In an open-access feature on Toilet Psychology for The Psychologist, Nick Haslam argues that psychologists should stop averting their eyes from the bathroom. "In 30 years of studying the...
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: The British Psychological Society has launched a new sports psychology portal "Going for Gold" with news and interactive features. On a similar theme - can you cope with pressure? BBC...
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: The British Psychological Society has launched its Origins Project - an interactive, multimedia timeline charting the history and development of psychological science. The blogger Neurobonkers...
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links. New brains exhibition (free entry) at London's Wellcome Collection "Brains: The Mind as Matter" has now opened. Includes samples from Albert Einstein's brain. There's a new pictorial...
Neuroscience
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You've heard of chic-lit, welcome to neuro-lit ... Charles Fernyhough, Jonah Lehrer and Claudia Hammond discuss neuroscience and novels on the latest issue of BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind (now on iPlayer).
How Google are introducing a new search function that works more like the human brain.
How smartphone apps based on Skinnerian principles are helping people change their lives.
Channel 4 broadcast the latest episode of Hidden Talent, which featured a search for an expert multi-tasker and a super face-recogniser (now available on 4oD).
Psychotherapist struck off by BACP for offering "conversion therapy" for homosexuality loses her appeal. Meanwhile prominent US psychiatrist Robert Spitzer has apologised for a paper he published in 2001, which suggested that such therapy works.
What is the point of psychiatric diagnosis?
Why your body jerks before you fall asleep. And ... how much people sleep on average.
One for the diary - Public lecture, May 28 in London "Do we need friends?"
Check out the latest posts on our sister blog The Occupational Digest on burnout and mavericks.
David Eagleman was on BBC Radio 3 discussing the ethical implications of neuroscience findings (streaming or podcast now available).
Another for the diary - "In conversation with Daniel Kahneman", LSE, London, 1 June.
Worth a look, new book The Moral Molecule, The New Science of What Makes Us Good or Evil.
A history of the British stiff upper lip - how social rules around the expression of emotion have changed through the ages (BBC Radio 4 programme now on iPlayer).
Disappearing Hand Trick has won this year's prize for best illusion.
Pork brains with milk gravy, anyone? Or what about a made-to-order knitted brain hat?
That's all for now, have a great weekend!
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett for the BPS Research Digest.
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Hear hear! Stop bullying the social sciences - LA Times Op-Ed. Why I am always unlucky but you are always careless - Tom Stafford of Mind Hacks explains. New book that's worth a look,...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: In an open-access feature on Toilet Psychology for The Psychologist, Nick Haslam argues that psychologists should stop averting their eyes from the bathroom. "In 30 years of studying the...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: The British Psychological Society has launched a new sports psychology portal "Going for Gold" with news and interactive features. On a similar theme - can you cope with pressure? BBC...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: The British Psychological Society has launched its Origins Project - an interactive, multimedia timeline charting the history and development of psychological science. The blogger Neurobonkers...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links. New brains exhibition (free entry) at London's Wellcome Collection "Brains: The Mind as Matter" has now opened. Includes samples from Albert Einstein's brain. There's a new pictorial...