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Here are my Research Blogging Editor's Selections for this week.
What does The Little Prince have to do with psychology? Quite a bit. Read this beautiful post by Maria Konnikova at Literally Psyched. The Big Lesson of a Little Prince: (Re)capture the Creativity of Childhood.
You've just read a paper that claims to be about embodied cognition. But is it really? Here's a handy field guide from Andrew Wilson at Notes from Two Scientific Psychologists.
"Does the Human Dorsal Stream," asks the Neurocritic, "Really Process Elongated Vegetables?"
The powerful neurotoxin that is Botox. Jordan Gaines in top form.
That's it for this week... Check back next week for more great psychology and neuroscience blogging!