Join the conversation at this week's Annual Meeting
The 2014 Annual Meeting will involve a social media component. Here are some hints and pointers for how to join the conversation. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 16, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
US National Institute on Aging is updating their strategic plan
. Psychonomics members are invited to provide input. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 13, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Are your experimental findings better than a guess? Guess what, ...
There is a significant difference between your group means. Case closed, null hypothesis rejected, research hypothesis confirmed, right? Not exactly: your sample means may not be as trustworthy as you think. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 12, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Putting that cocktail party (effect) on the screen
We've all experienced the "cocktail party effect": We are at a noisy party and we can barely follow the conversation around us, but when someone whispers our name at the other end of the room, we instantly pick it up. How would you put a cocktail party on the screen, using visual stimuli, to study attention and memory? (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 11, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
300 million years of pre-crastination
Do you delay things by procrastinating or are you eager to get things out of the way? If you like to complete tasks before they are due, then you are "pre-crastinating". This behavioral tendency to "get things out of the way" seems to have been around for a very long time: Pigeons tell us that pre-crastination may have a history of 300 million years or more. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 6, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Drugs save lives - but what about their side effects? Who can remember them?
Prescription drugs save countless lives every year. But drugs come with the price of side effects. Remembering what those side effects are is crucial for people to monitor their own health. But how good is our memory for side effects of prescription drugs? (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 5, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Visual Working Memory: A new collection of leading-edge papers
Even a brief flash of information, for 1/10th of a second, is sufficient for people to extract quite detailed information and store it in their visual working memories. Lots of exciting research questions about visual working memory were examined in a recent special issue of one of the Society's journals. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 4, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
I am social therefore I am intelligent? Chimpanzees vs. bears
Does a social environment determine social intelligence? How do chimps differ from bears? (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 2, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Music in the eye of the beholder
Put on earphones, block out the world around you, and what do you see? Perhaps less than you might think. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 28, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Can you train your brain? Or should you go jogging instead?
Does brain training software deliver on its promise? I interviewed some Psychonomic scientists who think otherwise. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 25, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
I know this guy. But wait, what was his name?
There is memory and then there is metamemory. Metamemory refers to our beliefs about the quality of our memories. I think I know this guy, but is his name really Fred? (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 23, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Ready for everything – Accommodating variability in accented speech
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Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 20, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Can you hear that face? Cross-modal perceptions
We usually think that we see with our eyes and smell with our noses. But recent research suggests that sometimes our modalities can become blended in surprising ways, so that we can maybe hear that face over there. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 15, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Optimal learning competition: Mastering Lithuanian in an hour
Cognitive and educational psychology have unearthed many factors that influence how effectively humans retain information, yet we still don’t really know how to maximise the effectiveness of memorisation. This competition hopes to stimulate progress, creativity and knowledge-sharing in this educationally vital field, and by doing so to drive forward our shared understanding of the human mind. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 12, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Will that depression rub off on me? How beliefs about mental illness influence our interactions with people with mental health problems
Almost 50% of Americans will experience symptoms severe enough to warrant a mental disorder diagnosis at some point in their lifetime. What determines others' willingness to interact with—or shy away from—people with a mental illness? (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 7, 2014 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
