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The King of Human Error
Vanity Fair: We’re obviously all at the mercy of forces we only dimly perceive and events over which we have no control, but it’s still unsettling to discover that there are people out there—human beings
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RAND Summer Institute
RAND is pleased to announce the 19th annual RAND Summer Institute (RSI). RSI consists of two annual conferences that address critical issues facing our aging population. The Mind-Medical School for Social Scientists will be held
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24th NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience
The 24th NIMH Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience will be held from June 24 – July 7, 2012. This year’s topics are “Does Brain Plasticity Account for Everything?” with Jon H. Kaas, and “The Indispensable
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Your Broker Is Probably a Master of Illusion
U.S. News & World Report: Daniel Kahneman is an Israeli-born psychologist. He won the Nobel Prize in economic sciences in 2002. He is best known for his work in behavioral economics, which attempts to explain
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Video gaming children ‘more creative’
The Telegraph: Researchers at Michigan State University, in the United States, found that playing video games was linked to greater creativity, regardless of the type of game played. Linda Jackson, the professor of psychology at
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A Brief Guide to Embodied Cognition: Why You Are Not Your Brain
Scientific American: Embodied cognition, the idea that the mind is not only connected to the body but that the body influences the mind, is one of the more counter-intuitive ideas in cognitive science. In sharp
