Prof Sophie Scott
the brain doesn’t care about your experiment. half of @neuromantics1, with @willeaves. RI Xmas Lecturer, Standup scientist, into voices, carpets, mustelids
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Trump to Sign Order Targeting Anti-Semitism on College Campuses
The president’s action will define Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, and empower the Education Department to withhold money from institutions that tolerate anti-Israel movements.
The Decade Comic Book Nerds Became Our Cultural Overlords
Why do they have to be such sore winners?
A Professor Tried to End a Flirty Email Exchange With a Young Woman. Then She Threatened to Blackmail Him.
It began, unlike most epic love stories featuring two cosmically intertwined souls rediscovering their connection from some past life, in
Yes, of course biological sex exists
Male and female are scientific reality — even if Jo Swinson doesn't agree
About: Secrets and lies
In three lectures Hannah unmasks the hidden numbers, rules and patterns that secretly control our daily lives, in ways we could never imagine.
Transgender homicide rate ‘remarkably low’ despite cries of ‘national epidemic’
Calls to combat a purported epidemic of killings targeting transgender people, especially women of color, are rising, even though U.S. data indicates that people who identify as members of the opposite sex are less likely to end up as homicide...
Thinking About Climate Change, Global Justice and Trans
I think all of these ‘big three’ axes of oppression—race, class, and sex—work in pretty much the same way when it comes to privilege. There are interesting differences between the three categories, because sex has a biological basis and is almost...
Taking Stock of Fiction and the Issue of Feminism and Trans Women
I have spent quite a bit of time over the last few months trying to put across an alternative to the dominant ‘inclusion’ narrative: trans women are trans women; they should be protected from all discrimination by the building of special resources...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson Used The N-Word In A 2004 Comic Novel
Labour’s Diane Abbott said the choice of language proved Johnson had “deeply held racist views”.
Beatboxers and Guitarists Engage Sensorimotor Regions Selectively When Listening to the Instruments They can Play
Studies of classical musicians have demonstrated that expertise modulates neural responses during auditory perception. However, it remains unclear whether such expertise-dependent plasticity is modulated by the instrument that a musician plays. To...
Prof Sophie Scott
@SpeechAndBrains @dlboebinger ...can be seen on listening to music, as is shown in this great paper by @salonikrishnan on guitar players and beat boxers (with @Reeps1)
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Musicians and non-musicians are equally adept at perceiving masked speech. - PubMed - NCBI
J Acoust Soc Am. 2015 Jan;137(1):378-87. doi: 10.1121/1.4904537. Comparative Study; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Prof Sophie Scott
Musical training into the studies @SpeechAndBrains and I were running. So we started with a behavioural study (with @dlboebinger) and we were unable to replicate the effect.
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Do Music Lessons Really Make Children Smarter?
A recent analysis of dozens of research papers found that most mischaracterize the relationship between music training and skills enhancement.
Beautiful: When This Man Tweeted That He Was Thinking Of Committing Suicide, Thousands Of Strangers Replied To Tell Him The Preferred Term Is Now ‘Dying By Suicide’
It’s so easy to feel alone in the world, but this story shows that no matter how badly you might be doing, there are people who care enough to reach out: When this man tweeted that he was thinking of committing suicide, thousands of strangers...
'Boutique hotel' scheme to replace Whitechapel Bell Foundry is halted by Secretary of State
Campaigners have won reprieve after a temporary halt was put on controversial plans to turn the historic Whitechapel bell foundry into a boutique hotel.
Journal retracts two papers linking exposure to violence to aggressive behavior
Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay A journal on adolescent issues has retracted a pair of papers linking exposure to violent media to aggressive behavior in youth after critic…
Ep. 74: Phoebe Maltz Bovy, Is Privilege-Checking Useful? - HHH
Phoebe Maltz Bovy is the author of "The Perils of 'Privilege': Why Injustice Can’t be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage," published in 2017.
The Battle Over Seattle Public School's Gifted Progams Heats Up
Some parents and teachers want the gifted program fixed. Others want it dismantled.