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Third World Congress on Positive Psychology
Third World Congress on Positive Psychology June 27-30, 2013 Westin Bonaventure Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA The Third World Congress on Positive Psychology is the perfect opportunity for anyone interested in learning how the "thriving science" is changing the lives of individuals, communities, and institutions around the globe. Presentations, workshops, and poster sessions will feature leading-edge research, as well as applications of positive psychology in a variety of fields — from business to education to medicine.
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4th Summer Institute in Human Ethology
4th Summer Institute in Human Ethology Sponsored by ISHE and the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI August 6-9, 2013 www.ISHE.org Details: The International Society for Human Ethology will hold its 4th Biennial Summer Institute on Human Ethology at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, USA, on 6-9 August, 2013. ISHE Summer Institutes are specifically designed to be more student friendly than many other scientific conferences, and include generous financial support for student participants (such as free registration and lodging stipends for students who are first author presenters of accepted proposals).
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Need Some Help Getting to Convention?
In case you were on the fence about whether to attend the APS Annual Convention, the APSSC is offering ways to cut down on the travel and registration costs. For volunteering and travel assistance, the APSSC is currently accepting applications online here. The APS student affiliates who are selected as volunteers are provided with a $200 travel grant to help defray the cost of attending the annual convention. For 2013 the APSSC expects to fund 45-50 volunteers. The APSSC hotel match-up program is a service for APS student members seeking to reduce their convention-related expenses by finding other students who are interested in sharing the cost of accommodation at the annual convention.
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Seeing and Imagining Are Different in the Brain
The Sistine Chapel is a truly awe-inspiring sight: a testimony to human ingenuity, effort, and creativity. No less awe-inspiring — and far less easily understood — are the mental processes that allow humans to see the chapel’s famous vaulted ceilings and the paintings that adorn them. We know more or less how the Sistine Chapel was built and decorated, but scientists are still figuring out what goes on in our brains when we see it. In an article published in the Journal of Cognitive Psychology, William L. Thompson adds to our understanding of visual perception by contrasting visual attention with visual mental imagery.
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Call for Submissions: Special Issue of Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics on “Structure of Visual Working Memory”
The journal Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, the official journal of the Psychonomic Society, is requesting submissions on the topic of the structure of visual working memory. Submissions are due by July 1, 2013 for publication in Winter 2013. We will consider regular Research Articles, Short Reports, and a limited number of Opinion/Review pieces. For Opinion / Review submissions, please send a presubmission inquiry to Jeremy Wolfe ([email protected]), Editor. This special issue is coordinated with a Symposium on the same topic to be held at the Vision Sciences Society meeting, Naples, Florida, May 10, 2013.
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Improving Students’ Learning With Effective Learning Techniques: Promising Directions From Cognitive and Educational Psychology
Read the Full Text (PDF, HTML) Some students seem to breeze through their school years, whereas others struggle, putting them at risk for getting lost in our educational system and not reaching their full potential.
