Here I am at the APS discussing my book Discovering Biological Psychology at the Cengage booth! CLICK on the above picture to see my book!
Here is what i am reading today:
“In a paper titled “The History of African Gene Flow into Southern Europeans, Levantines and Jews,” published in PLoS Genetics, HMS Associate Professor of Genetics David Reich and his colleagues investigated the proportion of sub-Saharan African ancestry present in various populations in West Eurasia, defined as the geographic area spanning modern Europe and the Middle East.”
“he Mount Sinai team evaluated the prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain that controls a wide range of cognitive processes and mediates the highest levels of learning. Nerve cell circuitry in the prefrontal cortex of young animals is highly plastic, and life experiences, particularly those that involve learning, can profoundly alter prefrontal circuitry.”
“A new study by motor control and psychology researchers at Indiana University suggests that postural control problems may be a core feature of bipolar disorder, not just a random symptom, and can provide insights both into areas of the brain affected by the psychiatric disorder and new potential targets for treatment.”
Come Join my daughters and me at our presentation this year at the APS! What do Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, and retired U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal have in common? A Q-sort technique was used to identify audience perceptions of personality characteristics of CEOs and generals, and results indicate more similarities than differences.
“Understanding the actions of other people can be difficult for those with schizophrenia. Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that impairments in a brain area involved in perception of social stimuli may be partly responsible for this difficulty.”
“Now, an international team of researchers co-led by MIT’s Josh Tenenbaum has found that infants can use that knowledge to form surprisingly sophisticated expectations of how novel situations will unfold.”
Discovering Biological Psychology and mousepad . If you are at the convention come on down and say "hello!"
3 Comments
nreyes · May 27, 2011 at 5:02 pm
“Babies can think rather sophisticatedly”
Understanding babies is always a toss up between yes or no-they either want the food or they don’t sort of thing. In this Developmental psychology class, I learned that the brain for an infant at 3, 6 and 12 months is still developing and that things they can/can not identify vary. I found this cool that the researchers found a way to stimulate brain activity and observe their reactions and actions to help learn hat actually goes through a child’s brain during this period.
The convention seems awesome! Hope you had fun!
corrieesmon · May 30, 2011 at 6:39 am
Infants thinking sophisticately : So I have noticed that children seem to be getting smarter. My son during his infant years was real hard to trick, or if I removed something from his room boy he would let me know he wanted it back. I use to think he would never noticed if it was missing, well I was wrong.
corrieesmon · May 30, 2011 at 6:58 am
The article on aging and experience really hit home with my husbands grandma that has Alzheimer’s. She use to work those crossword puzzles and read all the time and now she just sits in her chair and stares out the window. I would get frustrated with her, but I now realize she is really unable to work these puzzles.
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