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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Alpha-Band Oscillations Enable Spatially and Temporally Resolved Tracking of Covert Spatial Attention Joshua J. Foster, David W. Sutterer, John T. Serences, Edward K. Vogel, and Edward Awh It has been suggested that oscillatory activity in the alpha-frequency band is integral to spatial attention; research shows that alpha-band activity tracks the specific location a person is attending to. However, a key untested prediction of the relationship between alpha-band oscillation and spatial attention is that the topography of alpha-band activity also tracks the time course of covert orienting.
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Visual Illusion Could Help You Read Smaller Font
Visual acuity is thought to be dictated by the shape and condition of the eye but new findings suggest it may also be influenced by perceptual processes in the brain.
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of new research exploring links between pupillary response and depression following trauma, predictors of postdeployment functioning among combat veterans, the developmental course of borderline personality disorder, and reasoning among delusion-prone individuals.
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Your Hands May Reveal the Struggle to Maintain Self-Control
Watching people’s hands as they choose between long-term and short-term options offers a new approach to studying self-control.
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Systematic Research Investigates Effects of Money on Thinking, Behavior
Three experiments provide inconsistent evidence for the effect of money primes on various measures of self-sufficient thinking and behavior.
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Meaningless Accelerating Scores Yield Better Performance
From typing to exercising, racking up meaningless digital points can serve as an effective motivator, as long as the scores are accelerating.
