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Does Our Innate Ability to Estimate Numbers Benefit From Education?
Children are born with an innate number sense -- the ability to discriminate quickly between different amounts or numbers of objects, even without counting. And research has shown that children who have a more acute number sense -- or Approximate Number System (ANS) -- are also better at mathematics. In a new article published in Psychological Science, researcher Manuela Piazza of the Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit at INSERM in France and colleagues sought to understand whether improvements in ANS ability come naturally with age or whether they are the result of formal education. The researchers tested 38 subjects from an indigenous Mundurucú population in Brazil.
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Science Galore in the APS Exhibit Hall
This month, thousands of psychological scientists from more than 40 countries will gather at the 25th APS Annual Convention in Washington, DC, USA, to share their research, learn from leaders in the field, and celebrate 25 years of innovative science. Nineteen poster sessions in the APS Exhibit Hall will showcase attendees’ work.
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Fear, Happiness, and Sadness Share Common Neural Building Blocks
Diverse emotions are based on common building blocks of pleasure, displeasure, and arousal, according to new research
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9th Annual River Cities I-O Psychology Conference
9th Annual River Cities I-O Psychology Conference Trends in Training The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, University Center Chattanooga, TN October 25-26, 2013 www.utc.edu/ioprog/RCIO2013.htm
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What’s Location Got to Do With It?
When we see airplanes and toothbrushes and other visible things, we see them in relation to other objects — on top of a runway or inside of a mug on the bathroom counter. Many psychologists believe that location plays a special role in feature binding, the process through which the brain turns visual information about distinct features (e.g., location, color, and shape) into a cohesive image that represents an object. But a 2011 study published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology by Snehlata Jaswal of the Indian Institute of Technology in Ropar, India, and Robert H.
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APS Journal Seeks Labs to Participate in First Registered Replication Report Project
Updated June 5, 2013: Perspectives on Psychological Science has received a wonderful response to the call for proposals to participate in its first Registered Replication Report Project. The deadline for proposals to participate in the project based on Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990) is Tuesday, June 11, 2013. We expect to announce additional projects this summer. Just two months after APS launched a new initiative aimed at promoting and publishing replication studies, the first protocol has been finalized and editors are accepting proposals from researchers who would like to contribute an independent replication to the project.
