Neuroscience
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so:
Autism: Myth and Reality
Professor Uta Frith introduces an entirely open-access special issue of The Psychologist magazine devoted to the subject of autism. Also available via the Issuu platform.
What Life Is Like When You're Perfectly Alive, But Swear You're Dead
An interview with Esmé Weijun Wang who used to think she was dead when she wasn't, a rare condition known as Cotard's Delusion.
Susan Greenfield: Why Is She Reluctant to Engage With 'Mind Change" Critics?
This week, Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield gave a high-profile talk at the RSA on her theories about the psychological dangers of digital technologies. Psychologists Pete Etchells and Chris Chambers use their Guardian Head Quarters blog to explain why they were unimpressed.
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Vietnam’s Neuroscientific Legacy
The amazing story of all we've learned about the brain from the veterans who suffered head injuries during the Vietnam War.
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
Barbara Oakley with an inspirational story of how she become a professor of engineering relatively late in life.
September's Neuropod Podcast
Kerri Smith discusses research showing that people are more likely to judge a face to be alive if they feel socially isolated, plus much more on the latest issue of her podcast.
Are We Hard-wired to Doodle?
David Robson tells us about the desert tribe who tell each other stories with drawings in the sand. Did drawing first emerge as an early form of language?
Does a Group Have a Mind of Its Own?
Adrianna Jenkins describes her fascinating research that suggests people are inclined to see groups of people, such as corporations, as having their own form of collective personhood (related research from the Digest archive: Investigating the personality of companies).
And Finally ... Groom Gives Bride a Heady Gift: His Brain
"I wanted to surprise her with a gift that best symbolized me giving her all that I am."
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
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In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. The great illusion of the self - mind-boggling goodness from New Scientist (free registration required to read the full articles). 2. Professor Uta Frith DBE, autism...
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Tuck into our round-up of the latest and best psych and neuro links: Does psychological and neuroscience knowledge change how we understand and think about ourselves? Charles Fernyhough explores this very issue in his second novel A Box of Birds. He provides...
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Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology: The Greenfield saga continues. Recall that Baroness Susan Greenfield recently restated to New Scientist her fears that technology is harming children's brains, and that Professor...
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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...
Neuroscience
Link feast
Autism: Myth and Reality
Professor Uta Frith introduces an entirely open-access special issue of The Psychologist magazine devoted to the subject of autism. Also available via the Issuu platform.
What Life Is Like When You're Perfectly Alive, But Swear You're Dead
An interview with Esmé Weijun Wang who used to think she was dead when she wasn't, a rare condition known as Cotard's Delusion.
Susan Greenfield: Why Is She Reluctant to Engage With 'Mind Change" Critics?
This week, Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield gave a high-profile talk at the RSA on her theories about the psychological dangers of digital technologies. Psychologists Pete Etchells and Chris Chambers use their Guardian Head Quarters blog to explain why they were unimpressed.
Free Access to 750+ journals, 1.3M articles, and the ultimate research guide through October 31!
The journal publisher SAGE is offering complimentary access to its entire online portfolio, including psychology (free registration required).
Vietnam’s Neuroscientific Legacy
The amazing story of all we've learned about the brain from the veterans who suffered head injuries during the Vietnam War.
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
Barbara Oakley with an inspirational story of how she become a professor of engineering relatively late in life.
September's Neuropod Podcast
Kerri Smith discusses research showing that people are more likely to judge a face to be alive if they feel socially isolated, plus much more on the latest issue of her podcast.
Are We Hard-wired to Doodle?
David Robson tells us about the desert tribe who tell each other stories with drawings in the sand. Did drawing first emerge as an early form of language?
Does a Group Have a Mind of Its Own?
Adrianna Jenkins describes her fascinating research that suggests people are inclined to see groups of people, such as corporations, as having their own form of collective personhood (related research from the Digest archive: Investigating the personality of companies).
And Finally ... Groom Gives Bride a Heady Gift: His Brain
"I wanted to surprise her with a gift that best symbolized me giving her all that I am."
_________________________________
Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- Link Feast
Our 10 favourite psychology and neuroscience links from the last week or so: People's drawings of their own brains. Last week's issue of Narratively was a psychology special, including a comic look at a week on a psych ward and how an amateur...
- Link Feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. The great illusion of the self - mind-boggling goodness from New Scientist (free registration required to read the full articles). 2. Professor Uta Frith DBE, autism...
- Feast
Tuck into our round-up of the latest and best psych and neuro links: Does psychological and neuroscience knowledge change how we understand and think about ourselves? Charles Fernyhough explores this very issue in his second novel A Box of Birds. He provides...
- Feast
Our round-up of the latest juicy tit-bits from the world of psychology: The Greenfield saga continues. Recall that Baroness Susan Greenfield recently restated to New Scientist her fears that technology is harming children's brains, and that Professor...
- Feast
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...