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A collection of 110 posts

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A modest proposal

My dream PhD would have been to spend three years making babies yawn or giggle and then trying to get computers to do the same. This was how I was going to justify it. Models of Expectancy in Infants [pdf] 63k Unfortunately, this was a bit too narrow a topic

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The Japanese Gallery of Psychiatric Art

http://homepage3.nifty.co...ry/index_e.html

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Laughing man breaks Necker

No, this is not a 'Ha Ha Bonk' joke. Some Australian optometrist has discovered that laughing makes your brain go funny. Prof. Pettigrew is a jovial chap who happens to be  director of Queensland Uni's Vision Thing. He noticed that laughter stops binocular rivalry illusions/phenomena.

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making connections

It's a small metropolis! My mate Mike (see this) reviews a new book by my blog-buddy and friend of a friend Tom Stafford. But what is most amazing, is that this is the first I've heard of it. Especially, when it seems to be so completely

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Simple Heuristics that make smart

just finished reading Simple Heuristics that make smart - Gigerenzer & Todd (OUP, 2000) - on first appearance a dry academic psychology text on bounded rationality and how we use lots of shortcuts to get close to the right answer to complex practical problems. the slightly artificial but effective example

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deadlines, creditlines and trendlines

My final year project is finished and handed in. It was inevitably a mad scramble in the last few days before the deadline and an exhausted anti-climax afterward. But now i've caught up on my sleep, i'd do it all over again. Somewhere in those dark

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flying dalek rats

meanwhile, down at the university of Florida they're building an army of brains in vats GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- A University of Florida scientist has grown a living ìbrainî that can fly a simulated plane, giving scientists a novel way to observe how brain cells function as a network.

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Ferrets in the Matrix

In what is clearly a naked attempt to win an Ignobel, Michael Weliky at Rochester has got ferrets to watch the Matrix on DVD, while they had wires coming out the back of their head so he could watch what they were thinking.  In grown-up ferrets, he discovered patterns of

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Bushbot? Make the lie higher.

This is the first article I've seen about the presidential race that includes references from Acta Psychologica or the Psychological Bulletin.. as some guy tries to persuade us that the NLP cues prove that Bush was wired in the debates and was listening to prompts. Bellaciao - Bushís

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damn my eyes

A & B really are the same it gets worse if you scroll the page up and down a bit more here

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The Essential Difference?

http://www.guardian.co.uk...,937443,00.html Perhaps jealous of his cousins riches, Simon Baron Cohen seems to have given up doing real science and joined the Mars/Venus gold-rush. As far as I know he's not yet writing for the Womens page of the Daily Mail,

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Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia 'is like brain bomb'The Metro, 17 Aug 2004 or Mitochondrial dysfunction in schizophrenia: evidence for compromised brain metabolism and oxidative stressMolecular Psychiatry

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mainstream dreams

lest you think my dream collection exercise is airy fairy wish wash and not respectable research, you obviously have not read this weeks Newsweek What Dreams Are Made OfNew technology is helping brain scientists unravel the mysteries of the night. Their work could show us all how to make the

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that chimp is yawning - not boring

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/20609.html Jim Anderson from Stirling University has found evidence for sympathetic yawning in a group of adult chimpanzee's in the Kyoto University's Primate Research Center.. That's one more for Prof Matsuzawa to add to his repertoire story:

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More than my job's worth

Tomorrow for the first time in a half a year I have to pull on a suit & rejoin the drones toiling at the nine-to-five in a faceless corporation, so I thought I'd let off a bit of steam baiting some bureaucrats. To the Assistant Registrar, Birkbeck College

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MSc Cognitive Neuropsychology

Dr. Michael Thomas Dear Dr. Thomas, Here is my application for the MSc. in Cognitive Neuropsychology; I enclose the completed post-graduate application form, evidence of my existing qualifications and my professional CV (for what it is worth.) References from my personal tutor  and from a former colleague will follow. As

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Context is Everything - Susan Engel

http://www.williams.edu/P...ngel/engel.html I have just finished reading this excellent book (subtitled 'The Nature of Memory') and it reminds me why starting my psychology degree is the best thing I've ever done. This wonderful semi-popular, semi-academic book on the transactional, narrative

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added a couple more bits of old coursework to my psycho directory.. Two experiment designs Does context affect remembering and knowing or the generation effect? A within-subjects, between-subjects comparison. Testing recall span with word length and articulatory suppression using auditory stimuli. and one 'exam style' essay Discuss the

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psychos? neurotics? cogni-scienti?

added a new group to my sidebar of recommended other people & places to visit.. hope the worthy few won't mind their classification.. what i mean, of course, is that they are to a greater or lesser extent they are interested in psychology, neuroscience , cognitive science or some

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Richard Herring - Warming up

http://richardherring.com/warmingup It seems like Richard Herring would sympathise with my last post http://richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=347 In fact, that may even have been him running up the street! http://richardherring.com/warmingup/warmingup.php?id=497

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oi, oi, nutter alert!

isn't it amazing how fast we can spot an utter nutter on our streets or on public transport? within seconds of some looncake taking a seat opposite you, it is obvious that mentally their journey stops one stop short of where it ought. just in the merest glance

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if only tiny babies would do what you told them we new parents would get a lot more sleep.. was up all night nursing my nipper. the early part of the night went quite smoothly, the wee thing made stirling progress and in the process i became disturbingly nerdy.. i

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It's Alive!

for my final year project i am attempting to teach a computer to think like a three month old baby.. obviously it must must lie around drooling a bit before it can gurgle and play hidey-peep with me but we've passed the first hurdle.  I built a completely

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Jamie Ward - Synaesthete spotter

http://www.syn.ucl.ac.uk Went to a good seminar today all about synaesthesia, progress in understanding it is coming thick and fast.. mostly it seems due to the guy who gave the talk - Jamie Ward (at least that's his version!) here's some of

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do i need therapy?

http://psychologytoday.ps...apy_access.html I took online test at psychologytoday.com to determine if i need therapy..  :crazy: * You appear to have experienced at least one manic episode. * You experience some symptoms of substance dependence. * You have experienced symptoms of a major depressive episode, but not enough to