Neuroscience
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links:
The Exciting Side of Boredom
Ella Rhodes at The Psychologist meets psychologists who think boredom has had a bad press.
How are Pilots Psychologically Screened?
Tom de Castella investigates for BBC News Magazine.
What Spending a Year in Space Does to Your Mind
"It's stressful, but transcendental too," says Francie Diep at Pacific Standard.
Brain Balance Centers: An Insider’s Perspective
Worrying revelations about a programme in the US that promises to rebalance kids' brain hemispheres (Neurobollocks Blog).
Lifelines
For an artist with amnesia, the world takes place through her pencil (profile by Daniel Zalewski in the New Yorker).
Does Student Motivation Even Matter?
Engagement isn't necessarily a recipe for academic gains, suggests a new report on global education (The Atlantic).
How Do You Make Other People Feel?
Melissa Dahl reports on a fascinating study that suggests a key unexplored aspect of personality is how we make others feel (NY Mag Science of Us).
Rethinking The Brain
The Human Brain Project's aim to simulate the entire human brain is unrealistic – one of the conclusions of a damning report (coverage from Nature).
Disremembered
"Dementia undermines all of our philosophical assumptions about the coherence of the self," writes Charles Leadbeater at Aeon. "But that might be a good thing."
Why Some People Have Trouble Telling Left From Right (and Why It’s So Important)
"A significant proportion of our population has difficulty in telling right from left," says Gerard Gormley, including, worryingly, medical students (The Conversation).
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Big Baby Experiment A London lab is deploying every technology it can to understand infant brains, and what happens when development goes awry. Linda Geddes reports...
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Neuroscience
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The Exciting Side of Boredom
Ella Rhodes at The Psychologist meets psychologists who think boredom has had a bad press.
How are Pilots Psychologically Screened?
Tom de Castella investigates for BBC News Magazine.
What Spending a Year in Space Does to Your Mind
"It's stressful, but transcendental too," says Francie Diep at Pacific Standard.
Brain Balance Centers: An Insider’s Perspective
Worrying revelations about a programme in the US that promises to rebalance kids' brain hemispheres (Neurobollocks Blog).
Lifelines
For an artist with amnesia, the world takes place through her pencil (profile by Daniel Zalewski in the New Yorker).
Does Student Motivation Even Matter?
Engagement isn't necessarily a recipe for academic gains, suggests a new report on global education (The Atlantic).
How Do You Make Other People Feel?
Melissa Dahl reports on a fascinating study that suggests a key unexplored aspect of personality is how we make others feel (NY Mag Science of Us).
Rethinking The Brain
The Human Brain Project's aim to simulate the entire human brain is unrealistic – one of the conclusions of a damning report (coverage from Nature).
Disremembered
"Dementia undermines all of our philosophical assumptions about the coherence of the self," writes Charles Leadbeater at Aeon. "But that might be a good thing."
Why Some People Have Trouble Telling Left From Right (and Why It’s So Important)
"A significant proportion of our population has difficulty in telling right from left," says Gerard Gormley, including, worryingly, medical students (The Conversation).
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: Memories of Glyn W. Humphreys Psychology is mourning the sudden loss of a hugely influential researcher, teacher and kind man. The Stanford Professor Who Pioneered...
- Link Feast
Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Five-point Plan to Help Paris Survivors Recover From Attacks New Scientist speaks to UCL psychologist Chris Brewin. The Problem With the Argument That People ‘Ignored’...
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Our editor's pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Big Baby Experiment A London lab is deploying every technology it can to understand infant brains, and what happens when development goes awry. Linda Geddes reports...
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's best psychology and neuroscience links: What It’s Like to Have ADHD As a Grown Woman "Having ADHD is challenging regardless of gender but in a world predisposed to undermining women, not having your shit together can feel...
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Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: 2014’s Best Books on Psychology, Philosophy, and How to Live Meaningfully An end-of-year roundup from the BrainPickings website. Sickening and Morally Reprehensible Ella...