Link feast

Our pick of the best psychology and neuroscience links from the past week:Why Psychologists’ Food Fight MattersMichelle Meyer and Christopher Chabris with an in-depth overview of the recent rows and controversies about replication in psychology.Psychology Comes To Halt As Weary Researchers Say The Mind Cannot Possibly Study ItselfThe Onion imagines a world in which scholars of the mind give up.Neuroscience vs. Philosophy: Explaining the Secrets of the MindVideo of a debate hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas, featuring cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, neurobiologist Steven Rose, and philosopher Barry Smith.Neuroscience: Why Do We See Faces in Everyday Objects?David Robson explains the psychology underlying "pareidolia" - our tendency to see faces and other identifiable patters in randomness.Functional Neuroimaging’s Neymar ProblemNeuroskeptic reports on a new study that found star footballer Neymar da Silva Santos exhibits less brain activity than others when moving his foot. This is the well-known neurological signature of expertise, he says, but what does this mean for how we interpret reduced brain activity in patient populations?The Great ForgettingKristin Ohlson for Aeon magazine, on what happens to our earliest memories.Creative BritainIn this month's Psychologist magazine Stephanie Taylor takes a social psychological perspective on the rise of the "creative economy" in modern Britain.Guess I’ll Go Eat WormsRobin Marantz Henig with a personal take on ...
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