Neuroscience
Introducing a new Digest feature: "Feast", our occasional round-up of links to recent psychology news, gossip, podcasts, blog-posts and radio/tv shows:
BBC 2's Newsnight had a featurette on memory on Wednesday evening (from 30 minutes, 40 seconds onwards), to coincide with the 5th International Conference on Memory at The University of York.
The Developmental Neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop has written an open letter to Baroness Susan Greenfield, urging her to stop peddling unfounded claims about the internet and autism.
Deader than dead: people in vegetative states are viewed as deader than corpses, reports Ed Yong over at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
The Centre Forum think tank calls for a national parenting campaign to teach the population basic parenting skills, reports the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. (PDF of the report Parenting Matters: Early Years and Social Mobility).
The August issue of The Psychologist magazine is out now and includes open-access articles on the psychology of holidays and a brief-history of gory brain-injuries.
Higher education is burning out its employees, says new research covered by Alex Fradera at the BPS Occupational Digest.
Psychology Press has launched a new journal: Religion, Brain and Behavior - the first issue is free to access.
The latest Neuropod podcast has hit the wires, including segments on gut neurons and bird grammar.
Ben "bad science" Goldacre presented a show for BBC Radio 4 on longitudinal research and you can listen to it on iPlayer.
The American Psychologist is due to publish a special issue to mark ten years since 9/11. The Indy and other outlets are reporting that the terror attacks exposed how inappropriate psychological debriefing can exacerbate trauma.
Hear Freud, Jung, Skinner, Milgram and other great thinkers in their own words. New BBC Four series is underway with the first episode available on iPlayer.
The 2011 Royal Institution Xmas Lectures, entitled Meet Your Brain, are to be delivered by psychologist Bruce Hood.
Channel 4 has started a new 3-part series looking at how buildings affect our health and behaviour. The first episode is available via 4oD.
Psychological commentary from NPR radio on the US debt-ceiling negotiations.
Scientific American Mind reviews The Rough Guide to Psychology, by Digest editor Christian Jarrett.
A short from RadioLab features Bob Milne, a ragtime pianist whose brain appears to run on a dual-core processor (listen to find out why!)
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PS. Most of these links are taken from the BPS Research Digest Twitter feed: @researchdigest
PPS. This is an experimental format: if you'd like us to continue compiling similar posts on a regular basis, please register your approval via comments. Thanks!
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Neuroscience
Feast
BBC 2's Newsnight had a featurette on memory on Wednesday evening (from 30 minutes, 40 seconds onwards), to coincide with the 5th International Conference on Memory at The University of York.
The Developmental Neuropsychologist Dorothy Bishop has written an open letter to Baroness Susan Greenfield, urging her to stop peddling unfounded claims about the internet and autism.
Deader than dead: people in vegetative states are viewed as deader than corpses, reports Ed Yong over at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
The Centre Forum think tank calls for a national parenting campaign to teach the population basic parenting skills, reports the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. (PDF of the report Parenting Matters: Early Years and Social Mobility).
The August issue of The Psychologist magazine is out now and includes open-access articles on the psychology of holidays and a brief-history of gory brain-injuries.
Higher education is burning out its employees, says new research covered by Alex Fradera at the BPS Occupational Digest.
Psychology Press has launched a new journal: Religion, Brain and Behavior - the first issue is free to access.
The latest Neuropod podcast has hit the wires, including segments on gut neurons and bird grammar.
Ben "bad science" Goldacre presented a show for BBC Radio 4 on longitudinal research and you can listen to it on iPlayer.
The American Psychologist is due to publish a special issue to mark ten years since 9/11. The Indy and other outlets are reporting that the terror attacks exposed how inappropriate psychological debriefing can exacerbate trauma.
Hear Freud, Jung, Skinner, Milgram and other great thinkers in their own words. New BBC Four series is underway with the first episode available on iPlayer.
The 2011 Royal Institution Xmas Lectures, entitled Meet Your Brain, are to be delivered by psychologist Bruce Hood.
Channel 4 has started a new 3-part series looking at how buildings affect our health and behaviour. The first episode is available via 4oD.
Psychological commentary from NPR radio on the US debt-ceiling negotiations.
Scientific American Mind reviews The Rough Guide to Psychology, by Digest editor Christian Jarrett.
A short from RadioLab features Bob Milne, a ragtime pianist whose brain appears to run on a dual-core processor (listen to find out why!)
--
PS. Most of these links are taken from the BPS Research Digest Twitter feed: @researchdigest
PPS. This is an experimental format: if you'd like us to continue compiling similar posts on a regular basis, please register your approval via comments. Thanks!
- 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: 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
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits in the world of psychology: "All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen I'll make you see That this is thriller, thriller night" Michael Jackson. Why do we like scaring ourselves?...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy titbits in the world of psychology: All week long BBC Radio 3 has been running a series of programmes "The Darkest Hour" on insomnia. The latest issue of the American Psychological Association's monthly mag, Monitor,...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology: The problem with twin studies (via @mrianleslie). A tendentious view from Slate magazine. For an alternative view, check out the Digest's own guest post on "Why...