Monthly Archives: June 2016
Post Of The Week – Sunday, 26th June 2016
1) Robert Cialdini On Social Psychology Here’s Robert Cialdini explaining what social psychology, and in particular social influence research, is all about. 2) The Personality Myth This programme from NPR explores personality through several personal stories. In thinking about nature-nurture and free will and determinism, these stories are rather important. 3) Recovering From […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday 18th June, 2016
1) Marcus Munafo On Mental Health Genetics Here’s Marcus Munafo on a Mental Elf podcast. He says many important things about what we do and don’t know about the genetics of mental health. There is much here for our work on nature and nurture. Beyond that, he has something important to say about the connection […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday June 11th 2016
1) Suzanne Corkin Obituary Suzanne Corkin has died. She is the researcher who worked with HM, Henry Mollison. It is easy to underestimate the validity of case studies. We criticise them because the researcher sometimes becomes too close to the subject of the case study and because case studies can seem like a one-off, making […]
Post Of The Week – Saturday June 4th, 2016
1) Could A Neuroscientist Understand A Microprocessor? This article has as its starting point the analysis of the microprocessor which drove Mac computers 30 years ago. False functional inference: what does it mean to understand the brain? It leads to consideration of what we can and cannot infer about the brain. We tend to find the cognitive approach […]
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