Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Auditory pacing feedback better than visual in motor learning?@BrainCosmos, 5/31/11 2:01 AM

Brain (@BrainCosmos)
5/31/11 2:01 AM
Motor Learning with Augmented Feedback: Modality-Dependent Behavioral and Neural Consequences http://t.co/CJeIoF9


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Read three free articles from Cognition And Development@psypress, 5/31/11 8:00 AM

Psychology Press (@psypress)
5/31/11 8:00 AM
Read three popular sample articles from Journal of Cognition & Development here: http://goo.gl/oSC6E #spotlight #jcd


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Monday, May 30, 2011

Friday, May 27, 2011

FYiPOST: Top 30 Brain Fitness Articles

Here are the top 30 Sharpbrains articles based on our readers' ranking since 2006 and since 2010. Brain science news, brain fitness trends, brain health and maintenance tips, read on to expand your mind.  Go to link to view list at SharpBrains






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FYiPOST: Journal of Cognition and Development news




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Brain research as our new sputnik era?@brainfitness, 5/27/11 1:10 AM

Brain Fitness (@brainfitness)
5/27/11 1:10 AM
Is brain science research "the moonshot of our time"? http://bit.ly/mljaFT


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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

FYiPOST: Current Directions in Psychological Science Table of Contents for 1 June 2011; Vol. 20, No. 3

One of the best overview journals around.  

Subject: Current Directions in Psychological Science Table of Contents for 1 June 2011; Vol. 20, No. 3

Current Directions in Psychological Science Online Table of Contents Alert

A new issue of Current Directions in Psychological Science is available online:
1 June 2011; Vol. 20, No. 3

The below Table of Contents is available online at: http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/vol20/issue3/?etoc


Articles
Children's Reading Comprehension Difficulties: Nature, Causes, and Treatments
Charles Hulme and Margaret J. Snowling
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 139-142
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/139

A Memory Systems Model of Implicit Social Cognition
David M. Amodio and Kyle G. Ratner
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 143-148
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/143

Us and Them: Intergroup Failures of Empathy
Mina Cikara, Emile G. Bruneau, and Rebecca R. Saxe
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 149-153
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/149

Do Ideologically Intolerant People Benefit From Intergroup Contact?
Gordon Hodson
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 154-159
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/154

Moving Beyond the Mean in Studies of Mental Chronometry: The Power of Response Time Distributional Analyses
David A. Balota and Melvin J. Yap
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 160-166
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/160

Metacognition in Later Adulthood: Spared Monitoring Can Benefit Older Adults' Self-Regulation
Christopher Hertzog and John Dunlosky
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 167-173
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/167

Aging and Executive Control: Reports of a Demise Greatly Exaggerated
Paul Verhaeghen
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 174-180
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/174

Neuroergonomics: Brain, Cognition, and Performance at Work
Raja Parasuraman
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 181-186
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/181

Making Meaning out of Negative Experiences by Self-Distancing
Ethan Kross and Ozlem Ayduk
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 187-191
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/187

The Role of Evaluative Conditioning in Attitude Formation
Eva Walther, Rebecca Weil, and Jessica Düsing
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 192-196
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/192

Two Mechanisms for Simulating Other Minds: Dissociations Between Mirroring and Self-Projection
Adam Waytz and Jason P. Mitchell
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 197-200
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/197

Action's Effect on Perception
Jessica K. Witt
Curr Dir Psychol Sci 2011;20 201-206
http://cdp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/3/201



Friday, May 20, 2011

FYiPOST: STUDIES: Jurors May Be Allowing Intellectually Disabled Defendants to be Executed

Although the U.S. Supreme Court has determined that the intellectually disabiled (mentally retarded) are barred from the death penalty, the decision of whether a defendant meets this disability standard is not made by mental health experts but by jurors and judges.  A recent study published in Law & Psychology Review found that jurors expect a much lower level of intellectual functioning than mental health experts to arrive at a finding of disability.  Moreover, jurors are persuaded away from a disability finding by statements that the defendant knew his actions were wrong--even though such knowledge should not disqualify someone from being intellectually disabled. The study concluded that "jury pool members were less likely than experienced mental health workers to see severe impairments in functioning as evidence" of an intellectual disability. The implication of these findings is that fact finders are likely to fail to identify defendants with more moderate intellectual disabilities, even when impairments clearly meet diagnostic criteria used by mental heath professionals.  Read full study.

(M. Boccaccini, et al., "Jury Pool Members' Beliefs About the Relation Between Potential Impairments in Functioning and Mental Retardation," 34 Law and Psychology Review 1, 21 (2010)).  See Studies on the death penalty and Intellectual Disability.






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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

FYiPOST Mind control of robotics and computers @brainfitness, 5/18/11 12:00 PM

Brain Fitness (@brainfitness)
5/18/11 12:00 PM
Brain Plasticity: Using Advances in Technology for Better Living http://bit.ly/meJV1W #learning


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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience: Simply AWESOME




I just spent some time browsing the articles lined up for forthcoming publication in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. As a researcher who is looking for good research that links my primary are of interest (intelligence and measurement of intelligence) with underlying brain mechanisms, I think I have found the pot-o-gold at the end of the brain-behavior rainbow. Below is the list of articles the journal currently has "waiting in the wings." The depth and breadth is amazing. I have added this journal to my RSS feed so I can stay up-to-date when articles are published.

What a way to start my day. Finding this will sipping my morning java. Now if I could only fine time to read just a 1/4 of these articles.

Well MIT Press.

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Deductive (Gf) reasoning brain networks identified via mata-analysis@BrainCosmos, 5/17/11 2:14 AM

Brain (@BrainCosmos)
5/17/11 2:14 AM
The Brain Network for Deductive Reasoning: A Quantitative Meta-analysis of 28 Neuroimaging Studies http://bit.ly/k05ICb


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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Human speech perception: Annual Review of Psychology overview article

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Rare Dementia, Primary Progressive Aphasia, Attacks Brain’s Language Center - NYTimes.com



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PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: A Thief That Robs the Brain of Language, New York Times In The Popular Press: Could we use drugs to become more moral? Should we?, Wellcome Trust Blog "A Neuroskeptic's Guide to Neuroethics and National...





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Saturday, May 07, 2011

Why Academics should blog@BrainCosmos, 5/7/11 2:38 AM

This blog post explains many of the reasons I blog, especially intrinsic interest in staying current with new literature and sharing existing new articles with others.  Excellent.  Well done.

Brain (@BrainCosmos)
5/7/11 2:38 AM
Why Academics Should Blog: A College of One's Own bit.ly/m3PUnn


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Thursday, May 05, 2011

New APA journal App for iPhone and iPad

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Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Important new IQ Brain Clock theory. Cassenti's motor-temporal link model of temporal cognition

I just read a very important new article that presents an alternative model for understanding temporal cognitive and motor processing. As written about in many posts at this blog, the two dominant theories to explain temporal processing (aka, IQ Brain Clock) are the neural oscillator and internal pacemaker models. Cassenti (2011) presents an interesting new model called the motor-temporal link model that places major emphasis on the intrinsic timing mechanisms present in over-learned stored motor sequences.

For those interested in the Interactive Metronome (see my conflict of interest disclosure statement), Cassenti uses the positive results of IM studies to provide support for his model

The abstract is below (double click to enlarge). Also, I have made additional comments in the body of a PDF copy of the article via the IQ's Reading feature of my different blogs. Click here to read the original article with my comments.

I have also added Dr. Cassenti to the Mental Scholars Blogroll and have also included this article in the Key Research Articles Blogroll section of this blog.





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Free cognitive development articles@psypress, 5/3/11 4:22 AM

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5/3/11 4:22 AM
Remember to check out the Cognitive Development Society's Journal of Cognition & Development - great FREE articles here goo.gl/oSC6E


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Monday, May 02, 2011

Heir plasticity in child brains@AlvaroF, 5/2/11 2:24 PM

Alvaro Fernandez (@AlvaroF)
5/2/11 2:24 PM
Neuroplasticity in the Brain of Children with Neurological Disorders: The brains of children with neurological d... bit.ly/jL3qrn


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FYiPOST: PEBS Neuroethics Roundup from JHU Guest Blogger

Last Edition's Most Popular Article: The Science of Why We Don't Believe Science, Mother Jones In The Popular Press: Adaptable urban birds have bigger brains, BBC News Multitaskers Better at Spotting 'Invisible Gorilla', Wired Science Ultimate envy, Neuroethics at the...





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NIF Data Spotlight: Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit (XNAT)


"A picture is worth more than a thousand words". This idea applies to neuroscience and emphasizes the importance of visualization in science. With one image, it is possible to easily extract information and data that can take many words and tables to describe. XNAT, Extensible Neuroimaging Archive Toolkit is an open source imaging informatics platform designed to facilitate management and exploration of medical imaging and related data.

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