Archive for November 2013

Link feast

Our pick of the 10 best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week or so : Why the world’s most talented dreamers may hold the sec...

It's only in the last few years that researchers have documented the existence of a select group of individuals who have memories like a...

Explaining a rule or concept to yourself forces you to think deeply about it. Plenty of studies have shown this has benefits, both in terms ...

The faster people do things, the more mistakes they make. Also known as the speed-accuracy trade-off, this rule is considered by many fundam...

Our pick of the ten best psychology and neuroscience links from the last week or so : Forget Peppa Pig and Doctor Who, there's a new neu...

The latest version of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) controversial diagnostic code - "the DSM-5" - continues the...

We trawl the world's journals so you don't have to . Here are the latest journal special issues in psychology: New angles on the bra...

Simple facts about the brain are rare, but one of them is that for most people language function is located mainly in their left brain hemis...

"Out, damned spot!" cries a guilt-ridden Lady Macbeth as she desperately washes her hands in the vain pursuit of a clear conscienc...

Teddy bears and cuddly "haptic" jackets could be the solution to existential angst for people with low self-esteem. That's acc...

There's a scene in the 2013 comedy film The World's End in which a group of middle-aged old school friends are on a nostalgic pub c...

Regular readers of this blog will know that social psychology has gone through a traumatic time of late. Some of its most high profile prop...

Our 10 favourite psychology and neuroscience links from the last week or so : A neuroscientist shares his experience of being diagnosed with...

After Aaron Alexis shot dead 12 people at the Navy Yard in Washington DC in September, media outlets were quick to highlight his reported en...

When you move your body, how do you know that it was "you" who chose to move it? One answer comes from a computational perspective...