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Study Links Cognitive Deficits, Hearing Loss
The New York Times: There’s another reason to be concerned about hearing loss — one of the most common health conditions in older adults and one of the most widely undertreated. A new study by
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Highlight this Blog Post at Your Own Risk
The Huffington Post: How did you study? It’s question I often find myself asking college students during office hours when they come by to talk about a disappointing exam score or ask for suggestions for
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When Experts Go Blind
National Geographic: The picture above is an X-ray computed tomography (CT) scan of a human lung. Go ahead and take a few seconds to look at it carefully. How long did it take you to
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The (Really Scary) Invisible Gorilla
The Huffington Post: The Invisible Gorilla is part of the popular culture nowadays, thanks largely to a widely-read 2010 book of that title. In that book, cognitive psychologists Dan Simons and Christopher Chabris popularized a
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‘B’ is for orange: Synesthesia linked to alphabet magnets in small study
NBC: While Nathan Witthoft was earning his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he met a woman with color-grapheme synesthesia, a neurological condition where people see letters and numbers in color. Most color-grapheme synesthetes perceive
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science. Attentional-Tracking Acuity Is Modulated by Illusory Changes in Perceived Speed Welber Marinovic, Samuel L. Pearce, and Derek H. Arnold Researchers know that attentional tracking is affected
