Neuroscience
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week:
What’s Up With That: Why Do All My Friends Like the Same Music?
Nick Stockton at WIRED speaks to Petr Janata, a psychologist who studies music and the brain at UC Davis.
Conspiracy Theories Used To Be Just For eccentrics. Now Sensible People Are Getting Carried Away With Them Too
In one poll, nearly half of Scots said they believed the government was hiding an oil field. This, says Dorian Lynskey, is just the latest example of how belief in conspiracy theories is becoming more widespread.
Are Dolphins Cleverer Than Dogs?
Justin Gregg for the BBC surveys the evidence and concludes this is really the wrong question.
Have You Fallen Victim to the Guru Effect?
Neurobonkers sympathises with Michael Billig's (author of Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences) lament about the lack of transparent writing in the social sciences.
Amnesia - The Reality: Each Day a Blank Slate For the Man With No Memory
With the new Hollywood film Before I Go To Sleep presenting a rather misleading view of amnesia, the Independent profiles the real life struggles of amnesiac John Mills.
Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?
Communities with more trace lithium in their drinking water have lower suicide rates. Psychiatrist Anna Fels wonders whether we should consider adding more of it to our diets.
At 24, Woman Discovers She Was Born Without A Key Brain Structure, The Cerebellum
Neurosurgeons in China have reported the case of a young woman who went to hospital complaining of dizziness only to discover that she'd been born without a cerebellum.
Resilience: How To Train a Tougher Mind
Emma Young at BBC Future looks at the science of mental resilience.
Runs In The Family
"Cricketing dynasties seem to imply that talent is genetic," writes David Papineau at Aeon Magazine. "Yet the evidence from other sports queers the pitch".
Should Policy Makers and Financial Institutions Have Access to Billions of Brain Scans?
The Neurocritic discusses the possible implications of a new brain imaging study that linked risk propensity with grey matter volume in the parietal lobe.
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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 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 pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Real Life Lesson of The Stanford Prison Experiment (more from us) Maria Konnikova for the New Yorker. Consciousness Researcher on The Life Scientific Anil Seth was the guest...
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Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Down The Culinary Rabbit Hole Over at The Psychologist magazine, Chef Heston Blumenthal describes his work with psychologists, and there's an exclusive extract...
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In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. Shyness is not a disorder (Personal reflections from Joe Moran in Aeon magazine). 2. Next gen hi-res microscope for reconstructing human brain will produce more data...
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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...
Neuroscience
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What’s Up With That: Why Do All My Friends Like the Same Music?
Nick Stockton at WIRED speaks to Petr Janata, a psychologist who studies music and the brain at UC Davis.
Conspiracy Theories Used To Be Just For eccentrics. Now Sensible People Are Getting Carried Away With Them Too
In one poll, nearly half of Scots said they believed the government was hiding an oil field. This, says Dorian Lynskey, is just the latest example of how belief in conspiracy theories is becoming more widespread.
Are Dolphins Cleverer Than Dogs?
Justin Gregg for the BBC surveys the evidence and concludes this is really the wrong question.
Have You Fallen Victim to the Guru Effect?
Neurobonkers sympathises with Michael Billig's (author of Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences) lament about the lack of transparent writing in the social sciences.
Amnesia - The Reality: Each Day a Blank Slate For the Man With No Memory
With the new Hollywood film Before I Go To Sleep presenting a rather misleading view of amnesia, the Independent profiles the real life struggles of amnesiac John Mills.
Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium?
Communities with more trace lithium in their drinking water have lower suicide rates. Psychiatrist Anna Fels wonders whether we should consider adding more of it to our diets.
At 24, Woman Discovers She Was Born Without A Key Brain Structure, The Cerebellum
Neurosurgeons in China have reported the case of a young woman who went to hospital complaining of dizziness only to discover that she'd been born without a cerebellum.
Resilience: How To Train a Tougher Mind
Emma Young at BBC Future looks at the science of mental resilience.
Runs In The Family
"Cricketing dynasties seem to imply that talent is genetic," writes David Papineau at Aeon Magazine. "Yet the evidence from other sports queers the pitch".
Should Policy Makers and Financial Institutions Have Access to Billions of Brain Scans?
The Neurocritic discusses the possible implications of a new brain imaging study that linked risk propensity with grey matter volume in the parietal lobe.
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Post compiled by Christian Jarrett (@psych_writer) for the BPS Research Digest.
- 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’...
- Link Feast
Our pick of this week's 10 best psychology and neuroscience links: The Real Life Lesson of The Stanford Prison Experiment (more from us) Maria Konnikova for the New Yorker. Consciousness Researcher on The Life Scientific Anil Seth was the guest...
- Link Feast
Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so: Down The Culinary Rabbit Hole Over at The Psychologist magazine, Chef Heston Blumenthal describes his work with psychologists, and there's an exclusive extract...
- Link Feast
In case you missed them - 10 of the best psychology links from the past week: 1. Shyness is not a disorder (Personal reflections from Joe Moran in Aeon magazine). 2. Next gen hi-res microscope for reconstructing human brain will produce more data...
- 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...