Here are my readings for today: waking embryos?? “Under some conditions, the brains of embryonic chicks appear to be awake well before those chicks are ready to hatch out of their eggs. That’s according to an imaging study published online on May 3 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, Read more…
One of my colleagues at another university mentioned to me that she had been going through statisticians at an alarming rate. She quipped that she never thought of ‘spawning’ one! My daughter Kristin (middle) is an instructor at West Point and my favorite statistician and my daughter Karen (on the Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: dopamine may determine how hard you work “The study found that people who chose to put in more effort — even in the face of long odds — showed greater dopamine response in the striatum and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, areas of the brain Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: response to gaze “It’s sort of conventional folk wisdom, if someone in a crowd starts staring at something, soon someone else will too. Eventually the whole crowd will start staring, even if they don’t know what they are supposed to be looking at. Read more…
To help launch John Cacioppo and my new textbook “Discovering Psychology: the Science of Mind”, I will be ‘tweeting’ and ‘re-tweeting’ blogs and news articles that I hope you find helpful. Psychology has much to offer our world and to each of us… if nothing more than helping us in Read more…