Matthew J. Sharps Something about the Winter Solstice, on or about December 21 every year, seems to give people the willies. It’s hard to say why. If you live on a planet, you’re going to get solstices. You can’t help it. Yet things happen around that time of year anyway. Psychological things, of considerable interest….
Matthew J. Sharps Percival Lowell was a great astronomer of the last century, whose personal wealth allowed him to build a splendid observatory, the discoveries of which have been important to the present day. Yet despite all of his scientific success, Lowell is mainly remembered today for his one big failure: his descriptions of the…
Repeated tests of eyewitness identifications can result in eyewitness errors and ultimately in wrongful convictions. Check out this month’s post of The Forensic View from Psychology Today to find out why. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forensic-view/202412/dont-i-know-you-from-somewhere
Cognitive Asynchrony Theory This theoretical perspective provides a framework for understanding the effects on memory and higher cognition of the speed loss inherent in eugeric (normal) aging. The theory posits that eugeric neurological loss is asymmetric among the brain circuits supporting memory and decision-making, resulting in the greater difficulties observed in more complex imaging tasks…