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Learning to Drive With A.D.H.D.
The New York Times: The first time Jillian Serpa tried to learn to drive, the family car wound up straddling a creek next to her home in Ringwood, N.J. Ms. Serpa, then 16, had gotten
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A Wandering Mind Reveals Mental Processes and Priorities
Odds are you’re not going to make it all the way through this article without thinking about something else. In fact, studies have found that our minds are wandering half the time, drifting off to
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Learning From Fiction
My name is Sharda Umanath from Duke University, and I presented my research at the APS 23rd Annual Convention in Washington, DC.
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Daydream Believers: Scientists Ask Why Our Minds Wander
ABC: Zoning out while trying to read this? No offense taken, since all of us do it at least a third of the time that we’re awake. In recent years a number of academicians have
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Context for Fla. shooting? Study finds holding gun makes you likely to think others have guns
The Washington Post: No one knows what led a Florida neighborhood watch captain to shoot Trayvon Martin, a teenager carrying no weapon. But a new study raises an intriguing question: Could the watch captain have
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Driving Home the Point
When Haneen Saqer, Ewart de Visser, and Jonathan Strohl arrived at Westfield High School in Chantilly, Virginia to talk about the perils of distracted driving, they thought they would be addressing a group of 100
