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Interview with Colin Camerer
Behavioural Science is a rapidly expanding field and everyday new research is being developed in academia, tested and implemented by practitioners in financial organisation, development agencies, government ‘nudge’ units and more. This interview is...
Susceptible to dogmatism? New research suggests cognitive science can illuminate ideological extremism | CAM Digital |
Dr Leor Zmigrod is examining whether ideological extremism has neurocognitive roots.
Why are social interactions found quickly in visual search tasks?
When asked to find a target dyad amongst non-interacting individuals, participants respond faster when the individuals in the target dyad are shown fa…
Hippocampal neurons represent events as transferable units of experience
Hippocampal neurons track events as abstract units of episodic experience. These event representations can be transferred between different experiences and are separately manipulable from hippocampal representations of continuous changes in space.
Conversion to psychosis in adolescents and adults: similar proportions, different predictors | Psychological Medicine
Conversion to psychosis in adolescents and adults: similar proportions, different predictors - TianHong Zhang, LiHua Xu, Ying Chen, YanYan Wei, XiaoChen Tang, YeGang Hu, ZhiXing Li, RanPiao Gan, GuiSen Wu, HuiRu Cui, YingYing Tang, Li Hui, ChunBo...
Anti-COVID-19 Medications, While Possibly Life Saving, Can Have Life Threatening Complications if Used Inappropriately
The heightened awareness around the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as well as other experimental treatments for COVID-19 has led to reports of risky behaviors, according to Yale School of Medicine physicians.
Don’t Freak Out About Quarantine Screen Time
The evidence directly linking children’s screen time to cognitive and social harm seems, in reality, to be paper thin.
Eat Less, Live Longer
If you want to reduce levels of inflammation throughout your body, delay the onset of age-related diseases, and live longer - eat less food. That's the conclusion of a new study by scientists from the US and China that provides the most detailed...
Vision in Parkinson's Disease | Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging | FIL |
Parkinson’s disease is a common, debilitating neurological condition. As well as causing tremor and slowness of movement, dementia is a common symptom, affecting around half of all patients within 10 years of diagnosis. Our work is funded by a...
Cognitive computation using neural representations of time and space in the Laplace domain
Memory for the past makes use of a record of what happened when---a function
over past time. Time cells in the hippocampus and temporal context cells in the
entorhinal cortex both code for events as a function of past time, but with
very different...
Flight of the Influencers
Doctors warn that sharing decisions to leave metropolitan areas for smaller towns on social media might encourage followers to disregard public health guidelines.
They’re the Last Couple in Paradise. Eventually, It May Bankrupt Them.
Surrounded by a fleet of staff, who are also stranded, one couple is trapped in an eternal honeymoon in the Maldives.
Reward-based improvements in motor control are driven by multiple error-reducing mechanisms
Reward has a remarkable ability to invigorate motor behaviour, enabling individuals to select and execute actions with greater precision and speed. However, if reward is to be exploited in applied settings such as rehabilitation, a thorough...
Impaired theta phase coupling underlies frontotemporal dysconnectivity in schizophrenia
Abstract. Frontotemporal dysconnectivity is a key pathology in schizophrenia. The specific nature of this dysconnectivity is unknown, but animal models imply d
COVID-19 Host Genetics Initiative
The COVID-19 host genetics initiative aims to provide support and an analytical network for studies that are broadly interested in identifying genetic determinants of COVID-19 susceptibility and severity. Such discoveries could help to generate...
"I interact therefore I am" — Dimitris Bolis
"I interact therefore I am: Two-person psychophysiology and multilevel analysis of intersubjectivity to study interpersonal attunement in social interactions...