Neuroscience
Tuck into our round-up of the latest and best psych and neuro links:
The New York Times published an obituary for cognitive psychology legend Ulric Neisser, who died on Feb 17. Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks blog reminds us that Neisser criticised the short-comings of the cognitive approach later in his career. And here's a report on Neisser's passing from the Cornell Daily Sun.
Why do we procrastinate at work and some ways to stop (don't worry, it's fine to wait until you've finished reading these links, really).
Great news for history of psychology fans - Christopher Green and his crew have started recording several new psych history podcasts.
BeTipul, the Israeli forerunner to the critically acclaimed psychotherapy drama In Treatment, has started screening on the UK channel Sky Arts 1.
New book that's worth a look "Memory: Fragments of a Modern History' by Alison Winter. According to Brainpickings, the book "explores how the science and understanding of memory evolved over the past century, from early metaphors that likened it to a filing cabinet to the quasi-science of the prewar era’s “truth serums” to the psychology of false confessions and the latest neuroscience breakthroughs on how remembering works."
Video interviews with Chris Frith and others about the brain basis of consciousness. The same gang appeared on this week's Guardian Science podcast. And here's Anil Seth outlining the 8 questions science must answer about consciousness.
Here's the transcript of Jonah Lehrer's live NewYorker webchat about the genetics of altruism.
Why working at home is more stressful than the office.
French neuroscientist Olivier Oullier laments the fact that his country has banned the commercial use of neuroimaging, but not its use in court.
Will we ever be able to decode our dreams using brain scanning technologies? Probably not, says Ed Yong.
The Office for National Statistics has published the initial results from its well-being survey of the UK (pdf).
"Dinner table neuropsychology": How neuropsychology terms and knowledge are filtering down into everyday conversations and understandings.
Teller of the Penn and Teller double-act explains how magicians manipulate the human mind.
The NeuroSkeptic blog reports on an important study that used real objects in a brain scanner and found different results compared with the traditional method of presenting participants with pictures.
Brain training games as a treatment for schizophrenia.
Worth a look, new book: The Aha Moment by the chemist David Jones. His personal take on the creative process.
Childline have launched an online therapeutic game for kids called "Sky's the limit"; designed to take their mind off sad things.
One for the diary: Social psychologist Steve Reicher will be talking at LSE on March 14 about last year's English riots.
The latest Neuropod podcast (the 50th) is now online and includes some neuro myth busting.
On a related note, the human brain may have several billion fewer neurons than previously thought (but the study does suffer from a small, all-male sample).
Last up, here's a video tour of the brain regions involved in recognising and processing other people's moods, courtesy of Scientific American Mind.
That's all - have a super duper 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: 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: Will they ever let him rest? Researchers in the USA attempt to simulate the damage suffered by Phineas Gage to the white-matter tracts of his brain (no easy feat given that Gage's brain...
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Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Following the controversy and enmity aroused by two recent failed replications, The Psychologist magazine has hosted an opinion special on the issue of replication in psychology. In...
- Obit: Dr. Ulric Neisser
Ulric Neisser Is Dead at 83; Reshaped Study of the Mind By DOUGLAS MARTIN The New York Times Published: February 25, 2012 "Mr. Neisser helped lead a postwar revolution in the study of the human mind by advancing the understanding of mental processes like...
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| Ulric Neisser died aged 83 |
The New York Times published an obituary for cognitive psychology legend Ulric Neisser, who died on Feb 17. Vaughan Bell of Mind Hacks blog reminds us that Neisser criticised the short-comings of the cognitive approach later in his career. And here's a report on Neisser's passing from the Cornell Daily Sun.
Why do we procrastinate at work and some ways to stop (don't worry, it's fine to wait until you've finished reading these links, really).
Great news for history of psychology fans - Christopher Green and his crew have started recording several new psych history podcasts.
BeTipul, the Israeli forerunner to the critically acclaimed psychotherapy drama In Treatment, has started screening on the UK channel Sky Arts 1.
New book that's worth a look "Memory: Fragments of a Modern History' by Alison Winter. According to Brainpickings, the book "explores how the science and understanding of memory evolved over the past century, from early metaphors that likened it to a filing cabinet to the quasi-science of the prewar era’s “truth serums” to the psychology of false confessions and the latest neuroscience breakthroughs on how remembering works."
Video interviews with Chris Frith and others about the brain basis of consciousness. The same gang appeared on this week's Guardian Science podcast. And here's Anil Seth outlining the 8 questions science must answer about consciousness.
Here's the transcript of Jonah Lehrer's live NewYorker webchat about the genetics of altruism.
Why working at home is more stressful than the office.
French neuroscientist Olivier Oullier laments the fact that his country has banned the commercial use of neuroimaging, but not its use in court.
Will we ever be able to decode our dreams using brain scanning technologies? Probably not, says Ed Yong.
The Office for National Statistics has published the initial results from its well-being survey of the UK (pdf).
"Dinner table neuropsychology": How neuropsychology terms and knowledge are filtering down into everyday conversations and understandings.
Teller of the Penn and Teller double-act explains how magicians manipulate the human mind.
The NeuroSkeptic blog reports on an important study that used real objects in a brain scanner and found different results compared with the traditional method of presenting participants with pictures.
Brain training games as a treatment for schizophrenia.
Worth a look, new book: The Aha Moment by the chemist David Jones. His personal take on the creative process.
Childline have launched an online therapeutic game for kids called "Sky's the limit"; designed to take their mind off sad things.
One for the diary: Social psychologist Steve Reicher will be talking at LSE on March 14 about last year's English riots.
The latest Neuropod podcast (the 50th) is now online and includes some neuro myth busting.
On a related note, the human brain may have several billion fewer neurons than previously thought (but the study does suffer from a small, all-male sample).
Last up, here's a video tour of the brain regions involved in recognising and processing other people's moods, courtesy of Scientific American Mind.
That's all - have a super duper 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: Will they ever let him rest? Researchers in the USA attempt to simulate the damage suffered by Phineas Gage to the white-matter tracts of his brain (no easy feat given that Gage's brain...
- Feast
Tuck into our latest round-up of the best psych and neuro links: Following the controversy and enmity aroused by two recent failed replications, The Psychologist magazine has hosted an opinion special on the issue of replication in psychology. In...
- Obit: Dr. Ulric Neisser
Ulric Neisser Is Dead at 83; Reshaped Study of the Mind By DOUGLAS MARTIN The New York Times Published: February 25, 2012 "Mr. Neisser helped lead a postwar revolution in the study of the human mind by advancing the understanding of mental processes like...