Gone with the Rosebud: What movies are really like
Movies are a powerful medium. But what are movies really like? We know they have a beginning, a middle, and an end--but how do those parts hang together and what happens in between? Recent research provides an in-depth quantitative analysis of movies during the last 75 years. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 7, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Groundhog Day is better for your homework: We adapt to attentional conflict but only if nothing changes
Many stimuli give rise to attentional conflict. In the laboratory, the famous Stroop task involves naming the color ink of color words, and performance is slowed when "red" is written in blue. If this conflict persists, we tend to adapt to it and the cost of conflict is reduced. Recent research shows that this reduction in conflict cost is eliminated if surface features of the task change. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - June 2, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Is iron stronger than copper? When data and theories tell different stories about forgetting
Do people inhibit information in memory when they practice to retrieve other, related information? Or does stronger information merely overshadow other items in memory? The data from many experiments seem to speak against the latter possibility but recent research reveals that the data may not always tell the full story. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - May 27, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Processing Gef ühle in your second language
There is increasing interest in research into bilingualism. A recent study focuses on how we process emotions in a second language that is acquired later in life. It turns out that we can apparently suppress content with a negative valence. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - May 24, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Processing Gefühle in your second language
There is increasing interest in research into bilingualism. A recent study focuses on how we process emotions in a second language that is acquired later in life. It turns out that we can apparently suppress content with a negative valence. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - May 24, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Losing smarts through your smartphone: Multimedia use and achievement
Teenagers are legendary for their media multitasking, for example watching TV while texting and listening to Spotify with the other ear. Recent research shows that multimedia use is not without a cost: More media multitasking is associated with poorer executive functioning and worse academic achievement. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - May 14, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
When other people's minds are within your grasp: Motor cognition of theories of mind
Humans are social beings and by and large we understand each other. In particular, we have a sense of how others are feeling and what others might be thinking or what information they have access to. This is known as Theory of Mind. Recent research has linked aspects of Theory of Mind to motor cognition: there is a lot more to movement than just moving a limb. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - May 12, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
The good, the better, and the awesome of #psGranada16
The Granada meeting has drawn to a close. Here are some of the highlights, with a focus on social (media) events. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - May 10, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Periscoping #psGranada16
If you are attending the #psGranada16 meeting and you have a mobile phone, you can live stream a talk or session to let those who cannot be in Granada join us. Here is how. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - May 5, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
One week till #psGranada16
A week from today the Psychonomic Society will be hosting an international meeting in Granada, Spain. Here are some of the highlights of that meeting, including some digital and social-media events. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - April 28, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
When today's grass is greener than tomorrow's gold: Modeling temporal discounting
We value the present more than the future. When given the choice, very few people would prefer to wait a month to receive $51 if the alternative were to receive $50 today, even though the accrual during this delay would correspond to a whopping annual interest rate of nearly 27%. Recent research provides new tools to model people's discounting of the future. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - April 26, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
When you chuang to close the chuang because you want to go to chuang: Modeling spoken word recognition in Chinese
Many East Asian languages, including Mandarin Chinese, are tonal. That means that the meaning of a spoken word is determined by the pitch pattern of its pronunciation. Although very difficult to differentiate by non-Chinese-speaking people, subtle changes in tone can make the difference between a bed and a window. Recent research has managed to instantiate tonal differentiation in a computational model of spoken word recognition. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - April 21, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Singularities in inflection: Linguistic goslings or resource limitations?
I walk, you walk, he walks. It seems trivially easy to add that 's' when using a verb in the third person. However, some languages--such as Chinese--do not use any such inflection at all. Accordingly, native Chinese speakers have great difficulty producing the correct inflection in English, even after decades of practice. Why? Recent research sought to disentangle whether this is because language can only be learned during a critical period early in life, or whether those errors might be the result of processing resource limitations during speech. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - April 19, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Mistaking a murderer – Eyewitness memory blindness
Would you remember why you have made a choice? If you ordered lobster rather than steak, surely you would remember why? It turns out that people often do not remember their choices because they will happily justify why they mad a choice they ... umm .... did not make. Recent research extends this "choice blindness" to an arena where it matters a great deal, namely eyewitness identification. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - April 14, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
An Outlook on the Field
New developments appear rapidly in unpredictable places. How can we stay up to date on these advances? In an earlier era, we subscribed to a small number of journals and read the tables of contents of a few more. Those days are over. How can we cope with the new challenges associated with finding the latest developments? To address this conundrum, the Psychonomic Society’s journal Learning & Behavior has launched a new section of the journal to provide an outlook on the field and a venue for discussion of the most exciting current research on aspects of learning and behavior. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - April 12, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
