Scientific American: Tragic it is when a young mother never gets to meet her newborn child; however, it is also awe-inspiring to see a victim of this circumstance rise above and honor his mother’s sacrifice. On December 11th, 1925, the complications surrounding Paul Greengard’s birth resulted in the death of More
ABC News: On any gloomy day, Michele Sinesky asks her husband to find a good monster movie on television — “The Thing” or “The Tingler.” “You name it, I’ve seen it twice,” said the 63-year-old grandmother of four from Charlottesville, Va. “For one thing, it’s an old-time memory back to More
Several movies have tried and failed to generate lifelike animations of humans. For example, the lifeless faces in Polar Express made people uncomfortable because they tried to emulate life but didn’t get it quite right. “There’s something fundamentally important about seeing a face and knowing that the lights are on More
CogSci 2012 is the 34th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, to be held in Sapporo, Japan, Wednesday, August 1 – Saturday August 4, 2012. For more information visit: http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/conference2012/index.html More
The National Academy of Neuropsychology 31st Annual Conference will be held November 16-29, 2011 in Marco Island, Florida. For more information visit: http://nanonline.org/NAN/Conference/Conference.aspx More
Pursuing big questions in psychological science is an international effort. APS recently co-sponsored programs featuring cross-cutting research presentations by some of the most distinguished scientists in the field — “Social Psychology and the Neurosciences: Perspectives and Pitfalls” at the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP); “Exploring the Dynamic Interaction Between More
