Monthly Archives: August 2017
Post Of The Week – Sunday 27th August, 2017
1) David Engleman On The Brain This series is being repeated on BBC4 at the moment. The website for the programme is here and you can see the programmes via iPlayer. I liked the section on brain plasticity which I have incorporated into the webpage we will use this term. 2) Erasing Memories The […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 20th August, 2017
1) The Mind And The Brain This episode of The Infinite Monkey Cage includes a discussion of mind and brain. Wide ranging and surprising. 2) And Also On The Radio …. This programme takes what we think we know about Pavlov and challenges it. 3) Gender And The Brain This article looks at […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 13th August, 2017
1) Smartphones This article looks at the effect of smartphones on children and adolescents. It challenges claims by Jean Twenge, whose work we look at in the context of locus of control, about the damaging effect of phones on well-being. It’s useful for us in a couple of ways. Firstly, it raises some research methods […]
Post Of The Week – Sunday 6th August 2017
1) Newborn Baby Development Has Been Vastly Underestimated That is the claim of this article. The development on which it focuses is social development, specifically the response of new borns to the still face procedure which is explained here. Not only do infants respond to this procedure but they also seem to learn from it, suggesting […]
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