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Brenda Milner Awarded Pearl Meister Greengard Prize
APS Fellow and Charter Member Brenda Milner, the Dorothy J. Killam Professor at McGill University’s Montreal Neurological Institute will be honored with the Pearl Meister Greengard Prize Thursday, November 3, 2011 for her work in the field of cognitive neuroscience. The Pearl Meister Greengard Prize was founded by Nobel laureate Paul Greengard and his wife to recognize outstanding female scientists and researchers. The honor comes with a $100,000 award. Milner is best known for her work with a famous patient named Henry Gustav Molaison (a.k.a., HM), who had parts of his left and right medial temporal lobes removed.
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13th Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Meeting
The 13th annual SPSP Meeting will be held January 26-28, 2012, in San Diego, California. For more information visit: http://www.spsp.org/confer.htm
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Neuroscience 2011
The Society for Neuroscience will hold its annual convention, Neuroscience 2011, November 12-16 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. For more information visit: http://www.sfn.org/am2011/
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Con la suerte de tu lado
Yahoo News Argentina: Recuerdo que cuando iba en preparatoria tuve las clases más difíciles de mi vida: cálculo diferencial, geometría analítica y química orgánica. En ese entonces tendría diecisiete años y tres objetos "de la suerte" que me acompañaban en los días de exámenes, mi lápiz de la suerte, una estampita de la virgen de Guadalupe y unos aretes horribles pero muy poderosos, según yo. Sin ellos, no podía entrar al examen, simplemente me paralizaba de nervios. Mis objetos de la suerte han ido cambiando con el paso del tiempo.
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Men quickest to say ‘I love you’
The Telegraph: Previous research indicated that women are more expressive about how they feel - and tend to be ones who fall in love first. The reality, according to the latest findings by psychologist Marissa Harrison, from Pennsylvania State University in the US, is that women are actually more circumspect than men when it comes to romance. The study, published in the Journal of Social Psychology, showed men were more likely to fall in love within a few weeks, while most women said it took several months. Men were also more inclined to tell their partner they loved them much sooner in the relationship. Read the whole story: The Telegraph
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Intellectual Curiosity Predicts Academic Success, Study Finds
The Chronicle of Higher Education: Intellectual curiosity is a strong predictor of future academic performance, says an article in the journal Perspectives on Psychological Science. That conclusion was based on a meta-analysis of 200 previous studies of students who rated their own intellectual curiosity, among other factors. Intellectual curiosity has as large an effect on academic performance as conscientiousness, though not as much as intelligence, the article says. That finding lends credence to the idea that “a ‘hungry mind’ is a core determinant of individual differences in academic achievement,” write Sophie von Stumm of the University of Edinburgh and two co-authors.