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Multiple priming routes
Is it possible to have more than one priming effect at a time? According to a German research team, it is possible to have at least two simultaneous priming effects.
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Sleep Protects Declarative Memories From Interference
Declarative memories — memories for facts and events in time — become more resistant to interference during sleep, according to a study that will presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AA...
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Can blindsight lead to superior sight?
In a most interesting paper by Ceri Trevethan, Arash Sahraie and Larry Weiskrantz, it is suggested that blindsight patients are actually superior on certain visual stimulus detection tasks. In this paper, published in Cognition...
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Ned Block paper, BBS call for commentators
Ned Block is known for his suggestions that there are two aspects of consciousness and their neural underpinnings that need to be disentangled. In BBS, there is now an unedited and uncorrected final draft of a manuscript that, ...
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Startle reflex following subliminal images of fear and sex
What happens if you are presented with subliminal stimuli that are normally associated with fear or sexual arousal? In a study published in Biological Psychiatry two Spanish researchers now document that both negative positive ...
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Event perceptions
So how do we really experience the world around us, and events as they occur? As discrete units of experiences or as one flow of experience. In a recent paper in Psychologial Bulletin authors Jeffrey Sacks and colleagues sugges...
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Emotion
A new issue of Emotion is out, containing articles on topics including: emotion inference emotional competence in childhood chimp facial expressions
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Studying the wandering mind
Do your thoughts stray from your work or studies? Do you catch yourself making to-do lists when your attention should be elsewhere? Welcome to the club. College students reported mind-wandering almost one-third of the time in t...
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Why We Give In To Temptation
We’ve all had our moments of weakness when trying to control ourselves; eating that donut on your diet, losing your temper with your kids, becoming upset when you’re doing your best not to. It isn’t like we pl...
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Beliefs about the rigidity of personality
How do people reason about personality, and how people change or stay the same over time? In a study by Nick Haslam and colleagues lay theories of personality over time was explored. Among other things the researchers found tha...