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Risky Business: Teens Brains Behind the Wheel
Teen drivers are notorious for their bad decisions behind the wheel. According to the US Centers for Disease Control, the risk of car crashes is higher among 16-19-year-olds than among any other age group. In
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
Read about the latest research published in Clinical Psychological Science: The Price of Perspective Taking: Child Depressive Symptoms Interact With Parental Empathy to Predict Immune Functioning in Parents Erika M. Manczak, Devika Basu, and Edith Chen
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26th Rotman Research Institute Conference
The 26th Rotman Research Institute Conference will be held March 21–22, 2016. The conference theme is “Healthy Brains.” The 26th annual conference is bringing together academia and industry for a multi-faceted look at brain health. (See
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Brains of Congenitally Deaf Reveal Plasticity of Auditory Cortex
Neuroimaging involving people born deaf shows the pliability in the brain area that processes auditory information.
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Self-Control Competes with Memory
Research findings suggest that memory encoding and self-control share and vie for common cognitive resources: inhibiting our response to a stimulus temporarily tips resources away from encoding new memories.
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Developing Electrophysiology Training Resources
With support from the APS Fund for Teaching and Public Understanding of Psychological Science, Bukach set out to develop and test a sample event-related potential (ERP) course module complete with pedagogical slides, instructional videos, and sample data, with the larger goal of developing a full, hands-on ERP curriculum that would be especially beneficial to students at primarily undergraduate institutions.
