Ongoing Investigation

“The meaning of a sentence is derived from the original words by an active, interpretive process. The original sentence that is perceived is...

I did a study of reading comprehension for my masters thesis in 1981. I used a methodology that had just been introduced by Prof. Daniel Ka...

Development doesn’t stop at adulthood like I once thought; it keeps going. Lifespan development  proceeds by a process of resolving conflict...

Bayesian Program Learning BPL: probability-based program that is able to deal with variation during recognition tasks –like the ability to...

I know memory isn't a passive record of events.  It's more like an ongoing re-construction. When this happens, I consistently ge...

 Watching a hawk circle the canyon overhead starts out as packets of light or ‘photons’ striking my retina. How these photons strike t...

“Memory is not a passive record of things past. It's more like an ongoing construction-site, integrating and revising the past with...

In space, the powers of creation and destruction work differently. Matter forms ..dissolves ..then reappears in  a   s l o w e r   m a n...

brings down the recording industry.  Brilliant use of the Internet to create a meaningful music exchange

Looks like a pair of ski goggles with a cheap and easy interface ‘app’ to a video game console is all it takes to bring virtual reality i...

What makes some people less susceptible to PTS ..? Nociceptin receptors in the amygdala. Nociceptin (NOP) is a compound found at the syn...

The other day someone asked me what ‘verbal fluency’ meant. I wasn’t very convincing. So I did a little searching. Verbal fluency refers...

“The onset of puberty is determined by a mix of genetic and environmental factors coming to bear on the hypothalamus of the brain.”  Marg...

Mindfulness starts with the body: Meditation has been practiced for over two millennia in Asian Buddhist traditions. It is said to involv...

“I am going to give you big secret of the fountain of youth that will save you much money on cosmetics and plastic surgery: In stillness ...

“If you walk into a room, where a million things can attract your attention, how does your mind pay attention to what you need to pay att...

“Here we propose that mechanisms of memory and planning have evolved from mechanisms of navigation in the physical world and hypothesize ...

“People regard the present as a watershed moment that will last the rest of their lives .. this ‘end of history illusion’ has consequences...

James Fowler, professor of psychology at UCSD, found that messages from our peers are more likely to initiate action than messages from a...

A fun way to learn to relax Puzzlebox Orbit relies on EEG hardware from NeuroSky to capture brainwaves that signal attention and medit...

Decisions are mostly intuitive, logical explanations catch-up milliseconds later ~ Robert Sapolsky [ link ]

Since 1975, Elizabeth Loftus has conducted research into the integrity of human memory. Her studies show that memory is not a video record...

GABA is the chief inhibitory neurotransmitter of the central nervous system. It is responsible for lowering excessive activity in the brai...

People store and retrieve information based on self-interest, feelings and mirroring – or mentally simulating an activity. Kind of like w...

In an elegant ‘simulation’ of economic-class differences, researchers found that people with means (those in higher economic classes) don...