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5-year-old chimp beats college kids in computer game - CNN.com
Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.
Cognitive Dissonance - Social Psychology - New York Times
..the first evidence of cognitive dissonance in monkeys..
False memories show up in the brain : Nature News
Your brain can distinguish between real and fake memories, even if you can’t.
Guardian | Forever now
In 1985, the musician Clive Wearing suffered a brain infection that left him with the most severe amnesia ever recorded. But two things were unaffected: his love for his wife and his musical abilities. By Oliver Sacks
ScienceDaily: High-testosterone People Feel Rewarded By Others' Anger, New Study Finds
this explains a lot
Scientific American: (Can't Get No) Satisfaction
The new science of happiness needs some historical perspective
Reducing the Racial Achievement Gap: A Social-Psychological Intervention -- Cohen et al. 313 (5791): 1307 -- Science
The intervention, a brief in-class writing assignment, significantly improved the grades of African American students and reduced the racial achievement gap by 40%. These results suggest that the racial achievement gap, a major social concern in the Unite
Cordelia Fine
Dr Cordelia Fine is an academic psychologist, freelance writer, and the author of 'A Mind of Its Own: How your brain distorts and deceives'.
Visual Acuity [Neurontic]
...an excerpt of autistic savant Stephen Wiltshire drawing an aerial view of Rome from memory.
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