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25th Annual Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting
Carleton University will host the 25th Annual Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science Meeting (CSBBCS) from June 5 to 7, 2015. For more information, visit the conference website.
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: It’s All in the Family: Brain Asymmetry and Syntactic Processing of Word Class Chia-lin Lee and Kara D. Federmeier The specialization of the left hemisphere for language
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How the Brains of ‘Super-Multitaskers’ Are Different
New York Magazine: Multitasking, we’ve been told constantly in recent years, is something human beings aren’t naturally good at. Even though technology has given us more opportunities than ever before to, say, work while checking
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The Neurology of Lending
The Huffington Post: Back in 1976 a young professor in Bangladesh starting making dubious low-interest loans to the rural poor of his country. Muhammad Yunus had the crazy idea that even impoverished farmers — men
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Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain
The Washington Post: Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal claims about the benefits of meditation and mindfulness and test
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Weakening Memories of Crime through Deliberate Suppression
There are some bad memories — whether of a crime or a painful life event — that we’d rather not recall. New research shows that people can successfully inhibit some incriminating memories, reducing the memories’