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Gareth Furber

Use this category to introduce yourself and how you are involved in Psychology - 36 views

Hi everyone My name is Dr Gareth Furber. I run the website www.psychsplash.com and this diigo group is for anyone who has a knack for locating useful Psychology resources. I currently work in Child an...

Introduce Yourself

started by Gareth Furber on 29 Apr 07 no follow-up yet
Vahid Masrour

The Theory of Interpersonal Skills - 0 views

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communication psychology

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  • Vahid Masrour
    Vahid Masrour on 30 Sep 08
     
    Good summary. A little bit dry to look at, but all good concepts.
Gareth Furber

Neuroscience & psychology blogs « Neurophilosophy - 0 views

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blog-list psychology

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    Gareth Furber on 24 Feb 07
     
    great list of psychology and neuroscience blogs
Tero Toivanen

» Working Memory Training can Influence Brain Biochemistry   « Brain Fitness Revo... - 0 views

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sharpbrains working memory brain biochemistry training

shared by Tero Toivanen on 24 Feb 09 - Snapshot
  • The major finding was that increased working memory capacity following training was associated with changes in brain biochemistry. Specifically, the researchers found changes in the density and binding potential of cortical D1 dopamine receptors in brain regions that are activated during working memory tasks.
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 24 Feb 09
     
    The major finding was that increased working memory capacity following training was associated with changes in brain biochemistry. Specifically, the researchers found changes in the density and binding potential of cortical D1 dopamine receptors in brain regions that are activated during working memory tasks.
Tero Toivanen

Neurophilosophy : Experience induces global reorganization of brain circuitry - 0 views

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neurophilosophy brain LTP learning memory

shared by Tero Toivanen on 11 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • Now referred to as long-term potentiation (LTP), this mechanism has since become the most intensively studied in modern neuroscience,and is widely believed to be the cellular basis of learning and memory, although this is yet to be proven unequivocally.
  • In the new study, Santiago Canals of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen and his colleagues used the same protocol to induce LTP. But while the vast majority of researchers have investigated LTP in slices of hippocampal tissue, this study involved observing LTP in live animals.
  • This new research provides the first evidence that the local modifications in synaptic connections induced by LTP lead to long-lasting changes in the activity of a diffuse network of brain regions, and even to facilitated communication between the two hemispheres. The fMRI data showed that hippocampal LTP recruits higher order association areas, as well as regions involved in emotions and others subserving different sensory modalities, all of which are known to be involved in memory formation.
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 11 Mar 09
     
    Experience induces global reorganization of brain circuitry.
    This new research provides the first evidence that the local modifications in synaptic connections induced by LTP lead to long-lasting changes in the activity of a diffuse network of brain regions, and even to facilitated communication between the two hemispheres.
Tero Toivanen

Dormir poco causa problemas en las arterias coronarias - 0 views

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arterias coronarias

shared by Tero Toivanen on 14 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • Las arterias calcificadas, sin embargo, se encontraron en el 27
    por ciento de aquellos que dormían menos de cinco horas diarias por
    noche y el porcentaje era de un 11 por ciento en quienes dormían
    entre cinco y siete horas diarias por noche, y de tan sólo un seis
    por ciento en quienes dormían más de siete horas por noche.
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 14 Mar 09
     
    Dormir poco causa problemas en las arterias coronarias
Tero Toivanen

Musicians' brains keep time--With one another: Scientific American Blog - 0 views

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musicians' brain synchronize neuroscience brain waves unison

shared by Tero Toivanen on 17 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • The researchers found that the guitarists' brain waves were aligned most during three pivotal times: when they were syncing up with a metronome, when they began playing the piece and at points during the composition that demanded the most synchrony.
  • The synchrony was most prominent in the frontal and central parts of the brain that regulate motor function. "Whenever synchrony of behavior was high, synchrony of brain waves were also high,"
  • While brain synchrony during a duet seems like a given, it's a mystery how it happens, says Lindenberger, a psychologist. "One could speculate that this may be related to mirror neurons, the capacity of primates and humans to imagine the action of the other person while performing actions yourself," he says. "The mirror neuron system could be active during synchronized guitar playing."
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 17 Mar 09
     
    Credit their brain waves: they synchronize before and while musicians play a composition, according to new research.
Tero Toivanen

Eide Neurolearning Blog: The Biology of Creativity - Right Hemispheric Thinking, Problem So... - 0 views

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neurolearning brain hemispheric creativity Right Hemispheric Thinking

shared by Tero Toivanen on 23 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • A Northwestern research group has found that people that solve anagram puzzles by sudden insight rather than by conscious search or analytic strategies have an EEG resting state that prefers the right over the left hemisphere.
  • How often it does seem that it's the highly creative child who is having the greatest struggles in the conventional classroom! It's nice finding research that backs up the association. From this Harvard study, a diffuse attentional style was much more common among individuals with high lifetime levels of creative achievement.
  • The study concludes with a final interesting finding that differences in this attentional style might account for why high IQ beyond a certain point doesn't correlate with higher levels of creative achievement (the threshold effect...e.g. that once one is beyond 120, higher numbers don't correlate with enhanced achievement). If a focused vs. diffuse attentional style is taken into account, then it becomes more evident that diffuse attentional style + high IQ are important factors that contribute to high levels of creative achievement.
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 23 Mar 09
     
    A Northwestern research group has found that people that solve anagram puzzles by sudden insight rather than by conscious search or analytic strategies have an EEG resting state that prefers the right over the left hemisphere.
Vahid Masrour

Futura-Sciences > Dossier : Santé : la solution intérieure - 0 views

www.futura-sciences.com/...p4

shared by Vahid Masrour on 15 May 07 - Snapshot
  • Avoir l'espoir ne veut pas dire que nous pensons que les choses vont se produire bien, mais que les choses auront un sens », a écrit Vaclav Havel.
    • Vahid Masrour
      Vahid Masrour on 15 May 07
       
      optimisme joie de vivre espoir
Gareth Furber

CAMHS Evidence Based Practice Unit (EBPU) at AFC - 0 views

www.annafreud.org/ebpu

adolescents child-mental-health psychology review

shared by Gareth Furber on 30 Jul 07 - Snapshot
  • A booklet that explains the latest research in this area to busy practitioners to help them make appropriate treatment choices.
Vahid Masrour

..:: EAWOP ::.. European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) - 0 views

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organizational psychology

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    Vahid Masrour on 28 May 07
     
    The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (EAWOP) official site.
Gareth Furber

My Bookmarks - 0 views

www.diigo.com/psychsplash

bookmarks psychology

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    Gareth Furber on 23 Feb 07
     
    links to psychology websites and resources by Gareth Furber
Tero Toivanen

Memory Improved 20% by Nature Walk « PsyBlog - 0 views

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psyblog Memory Improved Nature Walk

shared by Tero Toivanen on 06 Mar 09 - Snapshot
  • Marc G. Berman and colleagues at the University of Michigan wanted to test the effect of a walk’s scenery on cognitive function (Berman, Jonides & Kaplan, 2008; PDF).
  • In the first of two studies participants were given a 35 minute task involving repeating loads of random numbers back to the experimenter, but in reverse order.
  • The results showed that people’s performance on the test improved by almost 20% after wandering amongst the trees. By comparison those subjected to a busy street did not reliably improve on the test.
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  • In the second study participants weren’t even allowed to leave the lab but instead some stared at pictures of natural scenes while others looked at urban environments. The improvements weren’t quite as impressive as the first study, but, once again, the trees and fields beat the roads and lampposts.
  • These results replicated a previous study by Berto (2005) who found that just viewing pictures of natural scenes had a restorative effect on cognitive function.
  • So just as we might have predicted nature is a kind of natural cognitive enhancer, helping our brain let off steam so it can cruise back up to full functioning.
  • When our minds need refreshing and if natural scenery is accessible, we should take the opportunity. If not then just looking at pictures of nature is a reasonable second best.
  • Tero Toivanen
    Tero Toivanen on 06 Mar 09
     
    New study finds that short-term memory is improved 20% by walking in nature, or even just by looking at an image of a natural scene.
Jonah Steinhaus

Iterasi Blog - 0 views

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links

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Dorota Tylus

Mind - How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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psychology science learning behavior

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    Dorota Tylus on 10 Oct 09
     
    "Researchers have long known that people cling to their personal biases more tightly when feeling threatened. After thinking about their own inevitable death, they become more patriotic, more religious and less tolerant of outsiders, studies find. When insulted, they profess more loyalty to friends - and when told they've done poorly on a trivia test, they even identify more strongly with their school's winning teams. #implicit learning: k. gained without awareness #rain-imaging studies of people evaluating anomalies, or working out unsettling dilemmas, show that activity in an area called the anterior cingulate cortex spikes significantly. The more activation is recorded, the greater the motivation or ability to seek and correct errors in the real world #disorientation begets creative thinking. "
nich95

Folic Acid & Depression - World of Psychology - 0 views

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shared by nich95 on 03 Jul 07 - Snapshot
  • You can add this to the pile of other things that can possibly improve a depressed mood, but one thing I am always mindful of is how changing your mood does not address the actual issues related to experiencing depression.
Craig Hutchison

YouTube - Existencialism and Behaviorism - 0 views

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existential therapy existentialism existential logotherapy Frankl consciousness behaviourism

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      Craig Hutchison on 23 Dec 08
       
      Spelling isn't mine! ;)
  • Existencialism
nich95

Nose Jobs and Personality Disorders - Psych Central News - 0 views

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  • A new obervational study suggests many individuals who seek cosmetic rhinoplasty (”nose jobs”) often exhibit personality abnormalities
  • including obsessiveness
  • hypochondriasis
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  • making false statements that make them look better compared with others (”good faking”).
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