Exploring the evolution and architecture of the mind
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:At BishopBlog, Dorothy Bishop discusses a popular theory in the development of language and reading disorders: that there are genes implicated in such learning impairments that affect a process in the developing brain called "neuronal migration."Who Says ‘I Love You’ First?...
Sometime between fifteen and thirty thousand years ago, probably in the Middle East, the long, protracted process of domestication began to alter the genetic code of the wolf, eventually leaving us with the animals we know and love as domestic dogs...
A trip to an unfamiliar part of the world is all you need in order to realize that humans have vastly different ways of eating, playing, talking, problem-solving, and so much more.
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:Stigma, neuroscience, cross-cultural psychology, and goats! Learn about why the Chinese language has a new symbol for "epilepsy," at Mind Hacks.Jordan Gaines is a neuroscience PhD student and a young science writer...
Here is a slightly modified version of the slidedeck I used in my talk at Experimental Biology this weekend. Jason G.
It is still incredibly difficult to adopt a domestic fox in the United States. However, several have been adopted as pets in other countries. Here's a video of one man and his two pet foxes doing...not much...
Just a quick announcement that I'll be joining fellow SA blogger Danielle Lee, Dr. Isis, and Pascale Lane in what promises to be the "world’s most amazingest session ever" on Saturday at 3pm at the Experimental Biology meeting in San Diego...
Here are my Science Seeker Editor's Selections for the past week:"To prepare for Wimbledon, Bjorn grew a beard and wore the same Fila shirt during the matches." At Why We Reason, Sam McNerney discusses the science of superstition.Why do we say that we travel "up north" or "down south"?...
In the 1950s, psychologist Harry Harlow began to study mother-infant relations in monkeys. After depriving young monkeys from their biological mothers, they were placed in a room where they could either hang out with a "wire monkey" - essentially, a metal figure in the rough shape of a monkey - or a "cloth monkey," which was the same figure, adorned in a fuzzy terry cloth coat...
First, a quick announcement: after more than two great years serving as Psychology and Neuroscience Editor at ResearchBlogging.org, I've stepped down, opening up the spot for somebody else...
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