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Brain Activity of Passengers on Terrifying Flight Sheds Light on Trauma Memory
Neuroimaging data collected from a group of passengers who thought they were going to die when their plane ran out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean in the summer of 2001 are helping psychology researchers
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Brain scans of passengers on near-disastrous Air Transat flight studied
The Globe and Mail: Brain scans of passengers who believed they were about to die when their plane ran out of fuel over the Atlantic in 2001 are helping researchers better understand traumatic memories. Air
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25th Annual Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting
Carleton University will host the 25th Annual Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting (CSBBCS) from June 5 to 7, 2015. For more information, visit the conference website.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: It’s All in the Family: Brain Asymmetry and Syntactic Processing of Word Class Chia-lin Lee and Kara D. Federmeier The specialization of the left hemisphere for language
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How the Brains of ‘Super-Multitaskers’ Are Different
New York Magazine: Multitasking, we’ve been told constantly in recent years, is something human beings aren’t naturally good at. Even though technology has given us more opportunities than ever before to, say, work while checking
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The Neurology of Lending
The Huffington Post: Back in 1976 a young professor in Bangladesh starting making dubious low-interest loans to the rural poor of his country. Muhammad Yunus had the crazy idea that even impoverished farmers — men