You may think I have far too much time on my hands (definitely not true as we enter the “midterm” phase of the quarter), but I took some time out to enjoy a feature on the BBC, one of my Read more…
I love computers. My students are blissfully unaware of the challenges of typing a dissertation on a Smith-Corona portable electric typewriter or using a slide rule in a graduate statistics course. Still, I’d like to continue to think that the Read more…
Whenever I’ve felt blue, I know that one sure cure is to tackle my garden. Of course, living in California makes this a year-round option. No matter what type of problem had been bothering me, I always felt better after Read more…
Kevin Corcoran and Gregory Quirk have demonstrated an interesting difference in the way learned and innate fears are managed by the brains of rats [1]. Learned fear is typically demonstrated using classically conditioned emotional responses. While a rat barpresses for Read more…
Once again, Antonio Damasio and his colleagues have found a creative way to illustrate the effects of specific brain damage, in this case the ventromedial prefrontal cortex or VMPC. Participants with damage to the VMPC due to aneurysm or tumor Read more…