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Scanning the Brain: Scientists Examine the Impact of fMRI Over the Past 20 Years
Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific quests of all time, but the available methods have been very limited until recently. The development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) — a tool
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Rubin Honored by Aarhus University, Denmark
In 2012, APS Fellow and Charter Member David C. Rubin, Duke University, received an honorary degree from Aarhus University, Denmark, at a ceremony attended by Queen Margrethe II. Rubin has been connected to Aarhus University
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Music and the Science of Learning
Are musicians born or made? Musical aptitude seems heritable, yet no gene has been specifically and uniquely tied to music.
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Suffer. Spend. Repeat.
The New York Times: In these final weeks before the holidays, it may strike you that retailers have gone out of their way to make holiday shopping as unpleasant an experience as possible. The odd
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Jumpstarting the Talking Cure
The “talking cure” originally referred to psychoanalysis, the brand of therapy made famous by Sigmund Freud and his followers. Today the phrase describes a very wide range of psychotherapeutic approaches, including psychoanalysis, that begin with
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V. Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science
16-19 May 2013, Dubrovnik, Croatia Sleep, neural oscillations, and cognition The Central European Cognitive Science Association (CECOG) launches its fifth international conference in the historical town of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science
