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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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Ugly font improves learning?@TheNeuroScience, 5/30/11 1:10 AM

Neuro Science (@TheNeuroScience) 5/30/11 1:10 AM Ugly font may improve learning http://sns.mx/qbdMy9

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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

http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2011/05/27/top-30-brain-fitness-articles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=top-30-brain-fitness-articles

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FYiPOST: Journal of Cognition and Development news

Brand New Issue Free Online The latest issue of the Cognitive Development Society's Journal of Cognition and Development is now available online - but hurry, free access is available only until June 15th! Highlights include: Applying the Cultural Approach to Cognitive Development by Mary Gauvain, Heidi Beebe, and Shuheng Zhao Executive Function in Preschool Children: Test-Retest Reliability by Danielle M. Beck, Catherine Schaefer, Karen Pang, and Stephanie M. Carlson TARGET ARTICLE with COMMENTARIES: How to Identify a Domain-General Learning Mechanism When You See One by David H. Rakison and Yevdokiya Yermolayeva, plus Commentaries by Athena Vouloumanos; Cara Cashon & Christopher DeNicola; and Gedeon Deák Sign Up for Email Alerts Receive email alerts to all new articles published in Journal of Cognition and Development - follow the 'Alert Me' link ( ) - in the center of the Journal of Cognition and Development homepage to register your contact details. Free Sample Articles Online Visit our Special Offer page to read free sample articles from Journal of Cognition and Development and all our Developmental and Cognitive Psychology journals. News and updates on Twitter & Facebook You can get Psychology Press news and updates on Twitter. You can also now get Psychology Press news and updates on Facebook.

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

One of the best overview journals around.  

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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

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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

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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.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-jurors-may-be-allowing-intellectually-disabled-defendants-be-executed

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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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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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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

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/health/03brody.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

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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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Metronome research with musicians supports oscillator model of mental timing (IQ Brain Clock)

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Interesting stuff on graphical abstracts of research articles

See link below

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authorsview.authors/graphicalabstracts

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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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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

Psychology Press (@psypress) 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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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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http://blog.neuinfo.org/index.php/news-events/xnat

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