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Sound and vision work hand in hand
Yahoo! India: A new study has revealed that our senses of sight and hearing work closely together, perhaps more than people realize. In the study of how one sense can affect another, Ladan Shams, aUCLA associate professor of psychology and her colleagues showed 63 participants a large number of dots on a screen in two separate phases, with a break between the phases. In one phase, the dots moved around randomly; in the other, some of the dots moved together from right to left. In both phases, the dots were accompanied by sound. Participants were divided into three groups.
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Why all parents have a favourite child
The Telegraph: In front of me I have two so-called “baby books”, both given to me as presents, in which I was supposed to chronicle the infant achievements of my sons, George and Johnny. George’s has been meticulously filled in: everything from the names of the midwives who delivered him, to the order in which his teeth came through, his first illness (conjunctivitis) and an account of his first Christmas so overwrought with emotion that it makes the Nativity itself seem like the warm-up act. And Johnny’s baby book? Empty. Not a thing. Not even a record of his birth weight, or his middle names — which, I must admit, I am struggling to remember. That’s not all.
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The Canadian Psychological Association’s 73rd Annual Convention
CPA’s 73rd Annual Convention will be held June 14-16, 2012 at the World Trade and Convention Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. For more information visit: http://www.cpa.ca/convention/
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38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology
The 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology will be held June 21-24 at the University of Colorado at Boulder. For more information visit: http://www.socphilpsych.org/meetings.html
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33rd Society of Behavioral Medicine Meeting
The 33rd Annual Meeting & Sessions of the Society of Behavioral Medicine will be help April 11-12, 2012 in New Orleans, Louisiana. For more information visit: http://www.sbm.org/meetings/2012
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2012 Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences
The 2012 annual meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences will be a joint meeting with the Sociedad Española de Psicología Experimental held at the University of Liège, Belgium on May 10-11, 2012. For more information visit: https://w3.fapse.ulg.ac.be/conferences/BAPSSEPEX/2012/