Tweeting while reading this post might weaken the cognitive benefits of your Fallout4 addiction
A recent paper in Attention, Perception and Psychophysics contrasts two common ways that people commonly multitask: action video game play and simultaneous consumption of multiple forms of media. The picture that is painted suggests that multitasking is not a monolithic construct, and different kinds and amounts of multitasking may impact attention and executive control in surprising ways. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - December 9, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Confidence intervals? More like confusion intervals
We have been discussing confidence intervals this week and have found them to be somewhat wanting. This post takes up further problems and points to an alternative that circumvents those problems. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - December 3, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
When you could be sure that the submarine is yellow, it’ll frequentistly appear red, blue, or green
This second in a series of posts about confidence intervals revisits the sunken submarine and seeks to find its hatch. It turns out that there is a way we can do that but it is not the conventional frequentist way. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - December 2, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
The 95% Stepford Interval: Confidently not what it appears to be
What could be more straightforward than the confidence interval? At first glance, it tells us what we want to know. However, appearances can be deceptive. Recent research shows that confidence intervals should rarely inspire confidence but skepticism. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 30, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
#Psynom15: The next generation
The annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society in Chicago drew to a close on Sunday. Our Twitter feed provides a record of the meeting with the hashtag #Psynom15. As always, the meeting included a number of poster sessions, and on the Saturday evening the Digital Content team approached a number of student authors at their posters at random. Here is what they were about. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 24, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
99 ±12 hours till #Psynom15
The annual meeting is just a few days away. Here is some information about the digital aspects of the meeting. Please attend our Social Media session on Saturday at noon. Owing to the annual meeting, there will likely be no further posts this week, but we are planning another digital event for the week after. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 15, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
When eyes lock onto venomous cucumbers: Attentional dwelling on threat-related stimuli
People are known to orient their attention automatically to threatening stimuli such as angry faces, snakes, or spiders. And once locked onto a threatening stimulus, people seemingly have a hard time looking away from the threat--at least some of the time. Recent research uses eye movements to examine why this might happen. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 12, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Gorillas defying the mist: Semantic impairments in people with Alzheimer's disease
Our knowledge of semantic categories is highly refined and permits us to make predictions about our environment. This semantic knowledge is impaired in people with Alzheimer's disease. Recent research illustrates how the severity of memory impairment relates to the structure of patients' semantic knowledge. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 10, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Your car tells you what to see: Driving affects distance judgments
Humans have developed artifacts to overcome limitations of strength and distance. But do we always understand our own artifacts? Do you really know what your robot is doing right now? Recent research shows that even cars can affect how we perceive distances. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - November 4, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Eeny, meeny, miny, mice: counting and numeric meta skills in animals
Numbers are part of everyday life. Turns out they are also part of animals' everyday repertoire. Mice can count, and they even display awareness of how well they can count. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 29, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Evolving beyond our antcestors: Explaining human spatial navigation
Ants can find their way home in a straight line after they happened to encounter food during their random meanderings. Humans have a lot more navigational skills than ants but, like ants, we seem to be counting our steps. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 26, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
The dark side of easy questions: Early confidence can sway jurors
There is little that’s more powerful in a courtroom than a confident witness who points a finger at the defendant and says “he did it” with great confidence. Unfortunately, a large body of evidence tells us that eyewitnesses—no matter how honest and confident—are not always reliable. Recent research addresses subtle ways in which witness confidence might be boosted, which in turn affects jurors' judgments of credibility. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 23, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Cheating honestly: The attentional Enron revealed by eye movements
When people face ethical dilemmas they generally balance two competing desires: Their self-interest and their moral standards. Research has generally shown that we resolve such dilemmas by employing a variety of self-deception strategies that enable us to cheat (a little) while retaining our self-perception as ethical individuals. A recent article examines the role of attention in this delicate balance. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 20, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Go and check ts-6b6-27c: Transparent workflow tools for scientists
Government should be transparent. Science should be open. Government information belongs into the public domain, and scientific data should be publicly available to permit replication and scrutiny. Few would disagree with those calls for openness, and indeed there has been a flurry of activity within the sciences to upgrade research practices to achieve greater openness and transparency. A recent article presents an analysis tool that may facilitate sharing not just of data but of analysis code as well. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 15, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
Join us in Pasteur’s Quadrant as Psychonomics launches a new journal
For the first time in 14 years, the Psychonomic Society is launching a new journal. The founding editor explains what this new open-access initiative is all about. Join us in Pasteur's Quadrant. (Source: Psychonomic Society News)
Source: Psychonomic Society News - October 13, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Source Type: news
