It surprises me greatly to wake up this morning on my 34th wedding anniversary. It took me a long time to be 34 years old, let alone be married that many years. One of my daughters had a poster in her dorm room of the ten steps to happiness. Step Read more…
The patient is a 23-year old woman, condemned to a vegetative state following a tragic automobile accident in 2005. Her sleep-waking cycles remain normal, but her eyes cannot focus or follow a person around the room. Adrian Owen and his colleagues [1] conducted fMRIs of the patient and 12 healthy Read more…
Pier Ferrari and his colleagues at the University of Parma in Italy just published an article titled Neonatal Imitation in Rhesus Macaques in PLOS–Biology. The authors demonstrated imitation of actions such as lip smacking and tongue protrusion on the infant monkeys’ first day of life. Imitation of this type is believed Read more…
Thomas Z. Ramsøy, a long-time member and frequent contributor to the Evolutionary Psychology listserv, and Martin Skov have a blog called Brainethics: Consequences of Brain Science. Biological psychology faculty would be particularly interested in a page of “Readings in Neuroethics.” The selection is lengthy and well-chosen. The site also features book Read more…
College students in the United States frequently complain about the cost of textbooks. How would you feel, however, if ONE textbook cost 20% of your annual income? That is essentially the problem in developing nations like Uganda. To combat this problem in the past, some organizations have collected used Read more…