“A European team of scientists have built the first atlas of white-matter microstructure in the human brain. The project’s final results have the potential to change the face of neuroscience and medicine over the coming decade.”
Click here for a link out to the full article on Neuroscience News.
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/articles/10.1038/nj7399-535a
Interesting article about the importance of considering job options outside of the Ivory Tower if you’re a science-based grad student.
Great web-summary on PsyPost of an article about consumer perception of product orientation, and how it influences the amount of visualizations involving using the objects.
Click the link for more: http://www.psypost.org/2011/10/how-does-hand-orientation-help-consumers-imagine-using-products-7665?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
A crash course in brain imaging…HOORAH!
This site makes my happy meter explode, and I can’t wait to have time to have a better look!
It’s all thanks to Dr. Jody Culham at the University of Western Ontario and the Robarts Research Institute. THANK YOU!!!
…my advisor is AWESOME.
The following is from Rice University’s Psychology News Website
“Professor James Pomerantz has been invited to deliver the next Kanizsa Lecture in Italy
Each year the Department of Psychology at the University of Trieste celebrates the work of the pioneeer visual scientist Gaetano Kanizsa with the Kanizsa Lecture. Kanizsa (1913-1993), whose name is widely known from the illusory figures and contours he created such as the famous Kanizsa Triangle, was an influential cognitive psychologist working in the Gestalt tradition, but he was also an artist. He was the founder of the Institute of Psychology of Trieste. Previous Kanizsa lecturers include Irvin Rock, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Philip Johnson-Laird, Richard Gregory, Elizabeth Spelke, Melvyn Goodale, and Steven Palmer.”
Hello all!
Due to some issues with the available templates for Rice’s blog domain (i.e., the templates that have RSS options are ghastly), I have created a Twitter that will keep track of my blog posts, as well as other cool neuro stuff.
So…follow me on Twitter at @amygdalawesome 😀
Thanks for following!
This video is the first part of 5.
Extraordinary People – The boy who sees without eyes [1/5] – YouTube.
RIP Ben Underwood. You are truly a miracle.
For all my current and future grad-school peeps. And for all those that find themselves curious about what grad school is all about. Dr. Azuma makes some excellent points for thought. Not to mention some humor in the mix! Here’s his brief description:
“A computer science graduate school survival guide, intended for prospective or novice graduate students. This guide describes what I wish I had known at the start of graduate school but had to learn the hard way instead. It focuses on mental toughness and the skills a graduate student needs. The guide also discusses finding a job after completing the Ph.D. and points to many other related web pages.”
It’s quite an effect!
Tangen, J. M., Murphy, S., & Thompson, M. B. (in press). Flashed face distortion effect: Grotesque faces from relative spaces. Perception advance online publication, doi:10.1068/p6968.
This is way cool, but I find it interesting (and concerning?) that there is no mention of the researchers that already did this in 2008 (Soon, et al)…Tsk, tsk, tsk.
(click on the brain to check out the article)
