Psychology Magazine

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• What is Consciousness, and Could Machines Have It?

  I want to point to a lucid article by Dehaene, Lau, and Koulder that gives the most clear review I have seen of our current state of knowledge on the nature of... Read more

  4 hours, 23 minutes ago by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• You Cannot Perceive a Relational Affordance (A Purple Peril)

  

  One of the more enduring arguments in ecological psychology is about the best way to formally describe affordances. The two basic approaches are that they are... Read more

  The 15 july 2018 by   Andrew D Wilson
  @PsychScientists
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• Playing with Proteins in Virtual Reality.

  Much of my mental effort while I was doing laboratory research on the mechanisms of visual transduction (changing light into a nerve signal in our retinal rod... Read more

  The 13 july 2018 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Study of Sensory Integration Therapy for Children with Autism – Seeking...

  

  By Roseann Schaaf, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTACourtesy: Roseann Schaaf, PhDLife is a sensory experience! We touch, hear, feel our muscles, move our bodies, taste, and... Read more

  The 12 july 2018 by   Autismsciencefoundation
  @autismsciencefd
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• Increasing Despair Among Poor Americans.

  A survey by Goldman et al. of more than 4,600 American adults conducted in 1995-1996 and in 2011-2014 suggests that among individuals of low socioeconomic... Read more

  The 12 july 2018 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• A Fundamental Advance in Brain Imaging Techniques.

  

  I want to pass on the abstract, along with a bit of text and two figures, from an article by Coalson, Van Essen, and Glasser that argues for a fundamental chang... Read more

  The 11 july 2018 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• Technology in Treatments: What Do Parents Think?

  

  More and more, researchers and clinicians are thinking about how advances in technology can be leveraged for interventions for children with autism. Read more

  The 10 july 2018 by   Autismsciencefoundation
  @autismsciencefd
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• Mindfulness Training Increases Strength of Right Insula Connections.

  

  Sharp et al.(open source) suggest that: The endeavor to understand how mindfulness works will likely be advanced by using recently developed tools and theory... Read more

  The 10 july 2018 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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• All Work, Some Play: Professional Conference Entertainment Through History

  

  contributed by CCHP graduate assistant Arianna Iliff.Conference season is upon us, and between all the seminars, workshops, forums, keynotes, poster sessions,... Read more

  The 09 july 2018 by   Chp
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• Mortality Rates Level off at Extreme Age

  Interesting work from Barbi et al. showing that human death rates increase exponentially up to about age 80, then decelerate, and plateau after age 105. Read more

  The 09 july 2018 by   Deric Bownds
  @DericBownds
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