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Brain Scans Reveal That Loneliness Changes the Way We View the World
Humans are meant to be around one another. It’s been that way for millennia. We needed each other to hunt, construct homes, procreate, care for our offspring and protect one another against the saber-toothed tigers
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A Decoder That Uses Brain Scans to Know What You Mean — Mostly
Scientists have found a way to decode a stream of words in the brain using MRI scans and artificial intelligence. The system reconstructs the gist of what a person hears or imagines, rather than trying
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New Research in Psychological Science
A sample of research on the fallibility of memory, encephalogram research, voice familiarity, voting preferences, neurodegenerative disease and aging, foreground bias in visual perception, and the responsible use of third-party data.
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New Content from Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
A sample of articles on measurement practices, multiverse methods, and intervention research; plus tutorials on performing omega estimates in R, visualization of neuroimaging data, and creating data dictionaries for shareable data sets.
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Scanning the Brain to Predict Behavior, a Daunting ‘Task’ for MRI
New research indicates that task-fMRI lacks the reliability to predict individual behavior or how a person might respond to mental-health therapies. [June 3, 2020]
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sampling of research on depression rates among M-Turkers,
treating the symptoms of
anorexia nervosa, social anxiety and dating, and the use of brain imaging to study worry.
