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Will Your Love Last? Your Brain Might Hold the Answer
ABC News: Sometime tonight between the roses, the Champagne and the chocolates, couples across the U.S. and elsewhere will sit down to an intimate Valentine’s dinner, stare soulfully into each other’s eyes and perhaps take
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Opportunities and Challenges in Social Neuroscience
The unifying Opportunities and Challenges in Social Neuroscience conference at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, is bringing together psychological scientists from around the world to discuss the directions that neuroscience is heading. New techniques resulting from advances in
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Getting Outside Myself to Help the Thai People
APS Fellow Bruce Svare reflects on his time in Thailand Those of us in higher education have a tendency to develop tunnel vision and become overly focused on our professional careers as scientists. When world
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fMRI Special Section of Perspectives on Psychological Science
Neuroimaging—is it voodoo, new phrenology, or scientific breakthrough? See what the experts have to say in this special section on fMRI in Perspectives on Psychological Science Neuroimaging: Voodoo, New Phrenology, or Scientific Breakthrough? Introduction to
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Phantom Limbs More Common Than Previously Thought
After the loss of a limb, most patients experience the feeling of a phantom limb — the vivid illusion that the amputated arm or leg is still present. Damage to the nervous system, such as
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More to Motor Imagery Than Mental Simulation
The human brain is a powerful simulation machine. Sports professionals and amateurs alike are well aware of the advantages of mentally rehearsing a movement prior to its execution and it is not surprising that the
