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Greg Hajcak
Stony Brook University, The State University of New York www.psychology.stonybrook.edu/ghajcak-/ What does your research focus on? My laboratory focuses on cognitive and affective science and their intersection with psychopathology (anxiety, depression, and psychosis). We
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Gaia Scerif
University of Oxford, UK http://psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk/abcd/index.html What does your research focus on? We live in complex multimodal environments, and yet even as infants we direct attention very efficiently to select what is relevant into memory, learning
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If You Can’t Notice a Gorilla in Plain Sight, How Can You Testify as a Witness?
Discover Magazine: Late one January night in 1995, Boston police officer Kenny Conley ran right past the site of a brutal beating without doing a thing about it. The case received extensive media coverage because
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¿Por qué no somos ya más inteligentes?: los perjuicios de tener una supermente
ABC Espana: Los seres humanos nos esforzamos en mejorar nuestra memoria, inteligencia y atención de múltiples maneras, desde tomar una taza de café que nos despeje la mente hasta consumir medicamentos psicoestimulantes. Pero quizás, aunque
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Why Aren’t We Smarter?
Astrobiology Magazine: We put a lot of energy into improving our memory, intelligence, and attention. There are even drugs that make us sharper, such as Ritalin and caffeine. But maybe smarter isn’t really all that
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Is this as smart as we get?
The Globe and Mail: “A provocative new paper warns that our societal effort to do whatever it takes to improve intelligence may be misguided, as any increases in thinking ability are likely to come with