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What Can Winnie-the-Pooh Teach Us About Media Multitasking?
Scientific American: If a writer, why not write On whatever comes in sight? So—the Children’s Books; a short Intermezzo of a sort: When I wrote them, little thinking All my years of pen-and-inking Would be
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How Pregnancy Changes a Woman’s Brain
We know a lot about the links between a pregnant mother’s health, behavior, and moods and her baby’s cognitive and psychological development once it is born. But how does pregnancy change a mother’s brain? “Pregnancy
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Lauri Nummenmaa
Aalto University, Finland http://users.utu.fi/latanu What does your research focus on? I study the brain basis of emotions and social cognition. Using the multimodal brain-imaging approach, I aim to understand the neural circuitry that enables us
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Atsushi Senju
Birkbeck, University of London, UK http://www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/people/scientificstaff/atsushi What does your research focus on? My research focuses on the typical and atypical development of the “social brain” — the network of neural structures specialized to process the
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Iris Kolassa
University of Ulm, Germany www.uni-ulm.de/en/in/psy-paed/professuren/klinbiopsy/staff/prof-dr-iris-tatjana-kolassa.html What does your research focus on? I have two research interests: First, the consequences of (traumatic) stress on the brain, the mind, and one’s molecular biology. Second, changes in the
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OppNet Request for Applications for Three-year Research Projects: Basic Research on Decision Making(R01)
OppNet, NIH’s Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network, released a new RFA for three-year research projects: Basic research on decision making: Cognitive, affective, and developmental perspectives (R01). Basic research on decision making: Cognitive, affective
