Brain-Training Claims Not Backed by Science, <i>PSPI</i> Report Shows

Brain-Training Claims Not Backed by Science, PSPI Report Shows

A scientific review puts the claims behind brain-training games and apps to the test.

Teaching Current Directions in Psychological Science

Featured articles: “When Fiction Becomes Fact” and “Conservatives, Liberals, and the Distrust of Science”

A Psychology Web Lab for Education: LABPSI

With the help of a grant from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, researchers in Argentina have developed an app that helps professors design experiments around the psychological theories they’re teaching to their students.

Ready, Set, Type! Touch Typists Are Faster, But Not By Much

The first typewriter, invented by a newspaper printer and editor named Christopher Sholes in 1868, had a keyboard arranged like piano keys. Initially, the inventors thought that an alphabetical arrangement of 28 letters in a

New Research From Psychological Science

Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: An Embodied Account of Early Executive-Function Development: Prospective Motor Control in Infancy Is Related to Inhibition and Working Memory Janna M. Gottwald, Sheila Achermann, Carin Marciszko, Marcus

What Pigeons Can Teach Us About Multitasking

Evidence has long shown that humans are terrible at multitasking. People are prone to make more mistakes when they’re switching between different tasks, say answering emails and listening to a conference call, than when they

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