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Psychological Science Gains Currency in the BrainBank
In 2011, APS Fellow Bruce Hood presented the Royal Institution of Great Britain Christmas Lectures. The Christmas Lectures, which have been held each year since 1825, are a series of talks on a single theme
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Ah, Wilderness! Nature Hike Could Unlock Your Imagination
NPR: Want to be more creative? Drop that iPad and head to the great outdoors. That’s the word from David Strayer, a cognitive neuroscientist who studies multitasking at the University of Utah. He knew that
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Beware of ‘Neuromyths’
The Wall Street Journal: No, you do not, in fact, use just 10% of your brain, and “learning styles” make no difference in the classroom. Psychology professor Christopher Chabris discusses these and other “neuromyths” Read
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The Brain: Forgetting So We Remember, Avoiding Overload
ABC: We accumulate so many memories that it’s a wonder our brains don’t clog, strangling us on the trivia of our daily lives. How do we recall the memories that are important to us without
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Simple Strategy Helps You Learn from Mistakes
Yahoo: A new study in Psychological Science bears out this benefit of self-affirmation. Volunteers were first asked to rank six values in order of importance to them. Then half spent five minutes writing about why
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Neuroscience Fiction
The New Yorker: In the early nineteen-nineties, David Poeppel, then a graduate student at M.I.T. (and a classmate of mine)—discovered an astonishing thing. He was studying the neurophysiological basis of speech perception, and a new