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Engaging undergrads with Wikipedia
Scientific American: Longtime science blog readers will certainly remember the popular cognitive psychology blog Cognitive Daily, written by Greta and Dave Munger, that had a fantastic five-year run at Scienceblogs. While Dave is still involved in the science blogging community through projects like Research Blogging and Science Seeker, and of course writing his own blogs, Greta has been pushing forward with online science communication in a slightly different way: working with her undergraduate psychology students at Davidson College in updating and improving psychology-related entries on Wikipedia.
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Southwestern Psychological Association 2012 Meeting
SWPA 2012 will be held April 12-14, 2012 in Oklahoma City, OK. For more information visit: http://www.swpsych.org/index.php
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SEPA New Orleans 2012
The annual conference of the Southeastern Psychological Association will be held February 15-18, 2012 in New Orleans, LA. For more information visit: http://www.sepaonline.com/annualmeeting-info.htm
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2012 Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior Meeting
The 2012 Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior Meeting will be held July 10-July 14, 2012 in Zurich, Switzerland. For more information visit: http://www.ssib.org/SSIB_2012/
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Society for Research in Child Development 2012 Meetings
The Society for Research in Child Development will be holding three themed meetings in Tampa, FL in 2012. Two will be held simultaneously February 2-11, and the third will be held October 18-20, 2012. For more information visit: http://www.srcd.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=585&Itemid=690
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New Evidence of an Unrecognized Visual Process
We don’t see only what meets the eye. The visual system constantly takes in ambiguous stimuli, weighs its options, and decides what it perceives. This normally happens effortlessly. Sometimes, however, an ambiguity is persistent, and the visual system waffles on which perception is right. Such instances interest scientists because they help us understand how the eyes and the brain make sense of what we see. Most scientists believe rivalry occurs only when there’s “spatial conflict”—two objects striking the same place on the retina at the same time as our eyes move. But the retina isn’t the only filter or organizer of visual information.
