Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
The Guardian asks whether the internet encourages insidious and bullying behaviour? Well, does it, punk?
We typically don’t remember our early years but it turns out this amnesia develops over time, as a brilliant piece on ‘The shifting boundary of childhood amnesia‘ at Psychology Today recounts.
BBC Radio 4 had a good documentary on the influence of Freud on British culture. Only three more days to listen – annoying, I know.
There’s a brilliant post on consciousness, mental time travel and the brain over at the consistently excellent Neuroskeptic.
BBC News report on the switch to short-acting barbiturate pentobarbital for the death penalty in the US. “a sedative typically used to put down animals” says the BBC, although they don’t mention it’s also used in the acute treatment of epileptic seizures.
Science News covers a new study on the intriguing but not very pleasant hallucinogen salvia divinorum.
Dan Ariely’s blog Irrationally Yours looks at how perception of value relates to worker effort not results.
The woman with no fear (and no amygdalae). Coverage from Not Exactly Rocket Science and Neurophilosophy outdid all the mainstreams.
The New York Times has a Bayesian take on Julian Assange: “…from the standpoint of Bayesian reasoning, to think we can separate out the merits of the charges from their political motivations.”
Footage of Freud and psychoanalysis – from the 1940s. Advances in the History of Psychology finds two archive gems.
The Guardian science blog covers an interesting study that tested whether sleep deprivation can prevent post-traumatic stress disorder.
For the first time, marijuana use is more common in American kids than cigarette smoking. The excellent Addiction Inbox has a great write-up.
Macleans has a great piece on fashionable paranoias. Nothing to fear but wifi and fluoride.
There’s an excellent analysis of how top flight science journals handle studies on language over at Child’s Play. In brief, they don’t.
The New York Times has a long but rewarding piece on ‘embodied cognition‘ by philosopher of mind Andy Clark.
The top 10 psychology studies of 2011 have been selected with excellent taste by Neuronarrative.
You all know the excellent Brain Ethics blog has just been relaunched right? New pieces on how to teach neuromarketing and whether genes make up your mind.
The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law has a thoughtful piece by a psychiatrist reflecting on Foucault, forensic psychiatry, and committing patients to hospital against their will.
We believe we have more free will than other people. Neurotic Physiology feels compelled to cover this fascinating new study.
The Guardian science blog has an eye-opening piece about the discrepancy between which childhood neurological disorders get the funding and which are most common.
The way in which data is collected for a psychology study affects the sort of people who volunteer. The BPS Research Digest covers the subtle effects of research design.
New Scientist has the best books of 2010 as chosen by neuroscience Steven Rose.
Psychologically inclined filmmaker Adam Curtis finds a social history gem on his BBC blog The Medium and the Message: a 1969 British documentary on the office Christmas party.
Seed Magazine looks at the science of interconnectedness and understanding risk in a connected world.
Contrary to lay wisdom, high trusters were significantly better than low trusters were at detecting lies. Barking up the Wrong Tree covers a counter-intuitive study.
No comments:
Post a Comment