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What Our Memories Tell Us About Ourselves
TIME: Do you remember the time President Obama shook hands with Iranian president Ahmadinejad? If you took part in a recent psychological study, it’s possible that you will. More than 5,000 participants were presented with
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Gazzaniga Book Signing at APS Convention
Few scientists know the brain as well as APS Past President Michael Gazzaniga does. A pioneer in cognitive neuroscience, Gazzaniga was the first researcher to study patients in whom the right and left hemispheres of
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A New Look at Perception (Thank You, El Greco)
The Huffington Post: El Greco was one of the greatest artists of the Spanish Renaissance, and also one of its most idiosyncratic. His contemporaries were puzzled by his fantastic use of color, and even more
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The Three-Billion-Dollar Brain
The New Yorker: Last week, the Human Connectome Project, supported jointly by sixteen components of the National Institutes of Health, released its first set of data, a massive set of structural and functional images of
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The New Power of Memory
The Wall Street Journal: Memory allows for a kind of mental time travel, a way for us to picture not just the past but also a version of the future, according to a growing body
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Study: Moving Backward Alters Our Perception of Time
The Atlantic: When college students were asked to look one month either into the past or the future, they perceived the future as closer (“a really short time from now”), while feeling more “psychologically distant”
