Psychology

The Plague And Burnout: Flow As The Solution To Both

I sincerely apologize for my complete absence from the blogging world though a recent bout with what can only be called "The Plague" has had me incapacitated for more than a week. Minus a trip to the doctor that only reinforced my belief that goi ...

Article - Me W - May 15 2010 - 5:26pm

Dopamine: The Neurotransmitter With Many Faces

A new study that was just released on Sunday and published online in Nature Neuroscience has found that Ritalin, a popular medication to treat ADD/HD, helps improve learning not only by improving focus, but also by increasing plasticity of neural connectio ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Mar 9 2010 - 2:17am

Atheists And Liberals More "Intelligent"? Better Check Your Definitions...

In the past week or two, there have been several news stories and blogs (including here on SB) written in regards to a paper that came out this month titled, "Why Liberals and Atheists Are More Intelligent". It would be easy for the untrained eye ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Mar 22 2010 - 12:23pm

Video Games Probably Make Kids Dumber, Study Claims

Some studies suggest that video gaming can improve vision and enhance information processing abilities. But that may be total nonsense, according to a study that examined the short-term effects of video-game ownership on academic development in young boys. ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2010 - 1:31pm

Catching a ball in 2009!

It (catching a ball) was easy, I was 35 or so and for the first time  in my life caught a ball! To be able to do this I had to learn how to think  with both OPTIC and Brain Generated vision. Psychology has no clue we have two forms of vision that happen du ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Mar 14 2010 - 11:15am

Meeting "Uncle Joe" a mind slip- view inside the mind

Autism and your normal mind-the connection. Have you ever been going along having a chat and suddenly your stopped cold?  You then see a "minds eye" thought of uncle joe (or something else). You are then forced to say I can picture him or it but, ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Mar 15 2010 - 11:13am

'Green' Purchases Often Motivated By Status

Environmentally friendly products are everywhere, but consumers aren't purchasing them because they care about the environment, according to a new University of Minnesota study. "Green purchases are often motivated by status," says Vladas Gr ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 15 2010 - 1:32pm

Timing Is (almost) Everything When It Comes To Scene Memory

The ability to remember a briefly presented scene depends on a number of factors, such as its saliency, novelty, degree of threat, or behavioral relevance to a task. Generally, attention is thought to be key, in that people can only remember part of a visu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2010 - 4:04pm

IQ and common sense

Someday,when the building block thoughts of the mind, the picture thoughts Temple Grandin wrote about and the ones high functioning autistic people build upon are generally known about, common sense will be common for every one. In fact it will be able to ...

Blog Post - Rich Shull - Mar 17 2010 - 9:57am

Autism And Vaccines: Why People Still Believe The Hype

Early last month, the now-famous paper by Dr Andrew Wakefield that supposedly linked vaccines to the onset of Autism, was formally retracted by the Lancet, the journal that published it back in 1998. This was a monumental decision, considering it was the c ...

Article - Andrea Kuszewski - Mar 31 2010 - 4:37pm