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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’
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Brain Methods Course
A “Brain Connectivity Methods” workshop will be held July 27–31, 2015, at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Participants will learn to use the connectivity toolbox: SPM12, FSL, and CONN. We’re hosting a Brain Methods course
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New Research From Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Psychological Science: Folk Explanations of Behavior: A Specialized Use of a Domain-General Mechanism Robert P. Spunt and Ralph Adolphs Do people use similar or different cognitive processes when making
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Getting Hands-On Deepens Science Learning
Students who use hands-on approaches to test or demonstrate scientific concepts understand the concepts more deeply and score better on science tests.
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Is Gender Identity Biologically Hard-wired?
PBS: JUDY WOODRUFF: Now another installment in our series Transgender in America. A small number of children as young as 3 are beginning to understand their gender identity as something different from what they were
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Brains, Schools and a Vicious Cycle of Poverty
The Wall Street Journal: A fifth or more of American children grow up in poverty, with the situation worsening since 2000, according to census data. At the same time, as education researcher Sean Reardon has
