Psychology:
As I mentioned last month, the British Psychological Society (BPS) recently commissioned a report into the implications of memory research for the legal profession. The report, written by the Memory and Law Working Party, a research board established by the...
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Posted on July 14, 2008 11:58 AM • 2 Comments •
The idea that memory is reconstructive and not reproductive - which dates back at least to the 1930s, when Frederic Bartlett published his classic book Remembering - has profound implications for the criminal justice system, as it raises questions about...
Posted on June 18, 2008 7:58 AM • 2 Comments •
Photo: Edmund E. Kasaitis. Tomorrow night's full moon will be very low in the sky, and will give a strong illusion of being far bigger than it actually is. Exactly why we experience this phenomenon is unclear; NASA provides...
Posted on June 17, 2008 12:40 PM • 3 Comments •
Paraskavedekatriaphobia is an irrational fear of Friday 13th; it is a form of triskaidekaphobia (a fear of the number 13 in general)....
Posted on June 12, 2008 6:10 PM • 5 Comments •
The bi-monthly American magazine Psychology Today has launched a network of blogs covering a wide variety of topics, including addiction, cognitive science, sports psychology and psychotherapy. The network contains more than 80 blogs, many of which are written by researchers who...
Posted on June 12, 2008 12:04 PM • 4 Comments •
This clever 2-minute film was produced by the Korean electronics firm Samsung, as part of their promotion for a new product called the SOUL mobile phone....
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Posted on May 25, 2008 2:26 PM • 0 Comments •
The WBUR/NPR programme On Point has a very interesting interview with Jill Price (right), a 42-year-old woman from Los Angeles who has a "non-stop, uncontrollable and automatic" episodic memory.Known in the scientific literature as A.J., Price is the first documented...
Posted on May 21, 2008 8:25 PM • 3 Comments •
Four representations of Phineas Gage, from Macmillan, M. (2006). Restoring Phineas Gage: A 150th Retrospective. J. Hist. Neurosci. 9: 46-66. [Abstract] Here's some more neurohistory from the Beeb: following on from last week's episode of In Our Time, which...
Posted on May 20, 2008 6:23 PM • 2 Comments •
Four years ago this week, leading neuroscientists and psychologists convened at Columbia University for the Brain and Mind Symposium, "to discuss the accomplishments and limitations of reductionist and holistic approaches to examining the nervous system and mental functions". Speakers included...
Posted on May 15, 2008 2:51 PM • 2 Comments •
Michael L. Anderson emailed to inform me about this forthcoming event: Announcing the 34th annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology June 26-29, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Registration is now open; deadline Thursday, June 5 -- 12:00pm...
Posted on May 13, 2008 5:31 AM • 1 Comments •
