Month: March 2012

• Low-tech robotics RT @alicebell: Wind-powered kinetic sculptures crawl down a beach: http://t.co/mSiGHsrV See also http://t.co/CMeAozyg #
• Autism cases cluster like environmentally triggered illness, but in areas of social privilage rather than deprivation http://t.co/2rCRGwXN #
• How I will retort to the next intrusion by the physicists into psychology http://t.co/MU5joRdO (Via Cosma) #
• Online book of condelences for Michael Siegal now open
  http://t.co/QWz8rerf see also for details of memorial seminar #
• Oooh special issue on dichotic listening in Brain & Cognition http://t.co/Khu2FzIq #
• 20 minutes talking to @mikedewar has made me a coding genius. If only it would last… #
• Bert has Korsakoff's amnesia and keeps a website. This page tells a bit about how he copes http://t.co/zPumAFsg #
• Five cognitive neuroscientists take a trip into the wild to escape the distractions of technology http://t.co/4gIpe7pB #
• Congratulations to the ABRG's own Mark Humphries, who has just been awarded a 7 year MRC Senior Research Fellowship. http://t.co/JvWV4gbZ #
• Good day – @totalshowman gave me a copy of his thesis, all corrections done. Thanks Dr Walton! http://t.co/OSn6qfOV #
• Got @mikedewar to help me with a coding problem today. Felt like tiny hobbit carried over the mountains in the claws of giant eagle #
• People from online collages keep offering to write me guest blog posts, presumably to get SEO for their spammy site. Anyone else get this? #
• Psychological and Neuroscientific Connections with Reinforcement Learning http://t.co/gHLTTPLV Great new chapter from the ABRG's Ashvin Shah #
• Enjoy @totalshowman's thesis "The Discovery of Novel Actions" here http://t.co/nLsIJmrJ #
• kinetic lego poetry from @alexallmont http://t.co/Io1B9UOP via @yaxu #
• Sean Bennett thinks earworms are a kind of auditory REM, brain activity specifically tuned to aid memory http://t.co/qIwI9sjx cc @mariapage #
• RT @MarkChangizi Earworm teaser from Harnessed. http://t.co/ld6mzDmp #
• Here's a UK-readable version of my latest column for @BBC_Future, about the superstitious brain http://t.co/TCvORFoO #
• What's new in the Psychology Department at @sheffielduni? News here: http://t.co/6UunAYZl #
• Terrific review of @jonahlehrer 's new book and a must-read comments section http://t.co/wxggbKxW #

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• It's going to be a straight down the line Gibson-Brooks-Dennett gig, folks #
• Question at talk: what are the most important concepts you use to understand the mind? Was stumped. #
• Before RT @thundercauldron: @pubpsychsheff @tomstafford psychology in the pub at the showroom. Great talk in prospect! http://t.co/cGwkH7wh #
• During RT @mariapage: Live from showroom! @tomstafford explaining why pirates wear eye-patches http://t.co/ICwyaX29” #
• Should have said: computation, action, evolution, game theory #
• After: http://t.co/veoPL0Yp #
• Thanks to all who turned out. Appreciated the support. Nice to do a talk for the home town crowd! #
• "And yet still they spot." http://t.co/2wOj5VFV #
• I am in the queue for bread with @aden_76. Next stop: @Sharrow_Vale hardware nextdoor #
• Meat space still not irrelevant. Quality of research linked to physical co-location, even in the internet age http://t.co/3Ixf9hVY #
• ADHD traits associated with higher creative achievement http://t.co/b3DDIvZ9 cc @mariapage #
• Those last two links from @jonahlehrer's new book, which I am reviewing for @sciencefocus #
• BBC News – Why are grown men still launching tabletop war? http://t.co/Py9zuNIN #
• http://t.co/Hm7tNWTv: Anatomy Of An Idea http://t.co/ZwK0BZ5X #
• Bitly Fights for Social Analytics With Weapons-Grade Math | Wired Enterprise | http://t.co/RFcsjRSO http://t.co/rous0uty #
• RT @topfife: Pirate Bay launching DRONE SERVER STATIONS — http://t.co/tb5vPcCQ via @tuupola #
• There have been 4999 downloads of my free ebook "Explore Your Blindspot" as of this morning… https://t.co/Llf7tab8 you know what to do! #
• RT @Psych_Writer: Mild intoxication aids creative problem solving. New research Digested: http://t.co/Jx6hirl1 #
• Our ebook on lucid dreaming is now available from the iTunes Store http://t.co/MuF6b69u #
• Seminar this friday in the department: Jen McBride "Automatic Motor Activation and Control" http://t.co/9FgZzP0p #sheffield #
• RT @jjodx Neuroprosthetic motor learning http://t.co/nx5tP0G5 #
• So just how "effortless" is that judo throw? http://t.co/OE24H4fa #
• RT @Neuro_Skeptic The Age of ADHD http://t.co/TiJjlKo9 #
• This! RT @bengoldacre Alan Turing on the next tenner please http://t.co/Z6UzOwQ0 #
• RT @deevybee "The REF: a monster that sucks time and money from academic institutions" http://t.co/ihRtUnn8 #

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• Scholarly debate in action: http://t.co/GCk5cf1f blogs have a special place in debate, not served by journals #
• Read @whimsley exploding some fashionable nonsense about trends in publishing http://t.co/xnDgfP8P #
• Including a link to this, which argues that the internet has *narrowed* popular discourse, not widened it http://t.co/F2ehAtrm #
• And this, which is a neat experimental study of how social influence affects success of cultural products http://t.co/P09PrXha #
• All win RT @criener: Did a 3D sidewalk chalk drawing with my Sensation and Perception class today! Cool stuff. http://t.co/qn6kqCCv #
• Trying to find details of a story I remember about a footballer whose superstition was always to be last out the dressing room #
• Am writing about personal rituals for @BBC_Future. Here's a good post on soccer superstitions http://t.co/C0iI737K #
• "10 Most Superstitious Athletes" http://t.co/VFZTgRFe #
• Dickinson and Balleine (2000). Causal cognition and goal-directed action http://t.co/MmNeD5Z9 a classic #
• http://t.co/9gkcIbvf "Share your life experiences" #
• Finished my column. Would like to include some fun examples of personal superstitions / rituals of the famous, alive or dead. Suggestions? #
• "Forget your generalized audience." Six Tips on Writing from John Steinbeck via @brainpicker http://t.co/EIXxXfcD #
• Browse recently submitted PhD theses from Leeds, York and Sheffield http://t.co/eVufjDdF the scholarly diversity fills me with joy #
• On thursday I'm talking at Psychology in the Pub on how we're "Thinking Meat" https://t.co/UUMhvNSu #sheffield #
• And here's a UK readable link for my column "Why can smells unlock forgotten memories?" http://t.co/YAyEvUKT #
• Excitement in the lab as @thundercauldron shows off his new continuous flash suppression technique, allowing subliminal priming. Neat-o #
• "Lego Robots! Subliminal messages! Britney Spears! Pirates! And a no-holds-bared personal revelation" https://t.co/UUMhvNSu tomorrow folks! #

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• .@HelenMort considers poetry and the dreaming brain http://t.co/hP5OA0Rt #
• RT @vaughanbell: Amazing @Radiolab short on nightmares and lucid dreaming http://t.co/Y5uFRb8W #
• I wish I was still at school so I could go to this http://t.co/PaHG4qAo Schools Videogame Festival in july #
• Excellent paper: "For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything" (Greene & Cohen, 2004) http://t.co/x67XQF5o #
• "Sheffield Ladies Wot Tech Celebrate International Women's Day" http://t.co/qlnxF1G6 #Sheffield #
• So do I know anyone with experience of hacking the Google Analytics data export API? #
• This is exactly the sort of thing that never happens to me http://t.co/9a8E6gkd What's the secret to serendipity @underscrutiny? #
• Hilariously bad dualism on this wikipedia page "Laughter is a part of human behavior regulated by the brain" http://t.co/dckYVBjT #
• "A laugh is characterized by a series of short vowel-like notes (syllables), each about 75 milliseconds long" http://t.co/Wmu4CIJa #
• "chimpanzee laughter occurs almost exclusively during physical contact" Another gem from http://t.co/Wmu4CIJa #
• It occurs to me that laughter could be a great measure of implicit bias. You can't control it, but it is also fundamentally social #
• Man tickling a gorilla http://t.co/T87L8yQi Love the BBC! #
• The paper from that article "Reconstructing the Evolution of Laughter in Great Apes and Humans" http://t.co/U7ysG4Bv #
• "Laughter among deaf signers" RT @yaxuprime Was wondering if laughter is inherently vocal, apparently so http://t.co/GSDgBFEN #
• "Why do we need to sleep?" http://t.co/ZP0UGjB6 my latest column for @BBC_Future #
• We can make you laugh, by electrical stimulation of the cingulate cortex http://t.co/9PZqaQ2C but it ain't funny #
• In blog comments @maxcoltheart is educating me http://t.co/MaxKtPWA. It's sad there aren't more academic fora for this kind of discssion #
• "Piéron’s Law and Optimal Behavior in Perceptual Decision-Making" (van Maanen et al, 2012) http://t.co/LOqjIWPQ #
• It would have been Townes Van Zandt's birthday today http://t.co/xJgVg6b2 #
• "Read-Right aims to provide free rehabilitation to patients with Hemianopic Alexia" http://t.co/CluM9em6 #
• Gamma band synchronisation is 91% heritable http://t.co/mBirYuXV that is an UNHOLY amount of genetic determinism in the visual system #
• Academics: I've conducted a simple study showing that using a wiki improves my students' exam grades. Which journal would publish this? #
• And, yes, I know the control condition is crucial. What i've done is neat/convincing but not conclusive (ie not Nature territory) #
• .@JStro_ And it's open access now – very fitting! http://t.co/aOnJLtTi #
• Robust, but slightly shrill, retort by Bargh to Doyen's criticisms of his classic elderly-prime/walking time study http://t.co/hl3gB6jX #

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• The Drop the Health Bill petition is now the most popular No. 10 e-petition, with 158,680 signatures http://t.co/cV5PskXm #
• Futurology and the Uses of Fiction by @AlecPatton http://t.co/4I9Gs1G1 #
• "Without a putative task analysis, interpreting functional imaging results is little better than reading the tea leaves" Shallice & Cooper #
• That quote used in a great review of the book in the latest @psychmag #
• Received 14 June 1995; accepted 8 May 2006 Available online 8 October 2008

  Academic publishing is fantastically broken http://t.co/e3ZmVipp #

• London here I come #
• Tomorrow: visiting @Preloaded in Old Street. Anyone on Silicon Roundabout fancy lunch? @genmon? #
• Obituary of the Department's Prof. Michael Siegal http://t.co/QWz8rerf #
• "the whole industry is somewhere between hopeful speculation and a rip-off" me quoted on Brain Training in the National http://t.co/o3Xej98K #
• Oh look – a new column by me at @BBC_Future is up "Do we all see the same colours?" http://t.co/8ak4f7vO in UK link: http://t.co/SYZhFw21 #
• Come and be a colleague of mine in Sheffield "We're hiring" http://t.co/XQgiVQTT #
• Important context on that "Psychologists Legally Required to Dress As Wizards" story http://t.co/M6t8ys81 #
• In case you missed this last night: Come and be a colleague of mine in Sheffield "We're hiring" http://t.co/XQgiVQTT #
• Howl for the digital age RT @mikedewar: I saw the greatest minds of my generation… http://t.co/O4XPriP4 #
• 13th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop (NCPW13) to be held in San Sebastian (Spain) from July 12-14, 2012: http://t.co/RzUS0mNH #
• Is Willpower just Working Memory? New paper by Alan Baddeley and colleagues explores links between social and cog psych http://t.co/PD2S2tA4 #
• British Neuropsychological Society Meeting, London, 28-29th of March http://t.co/Y2kXLYNO #
• Surely to really recreate the effect of the BBC Micro, everything else has to be as boring as the 1980s? @Raspberry_Pi #
• Funded PhDs in "Search and Rescue" network with engineering and comp sci. I am co-supervising project 3 http://t.co/Z5BEReSc #
• RT @BrainStraining @Neurobonkers shows you how to lie with questionnaires http://t.co/9KspPbiY #
• RT @brainpicker Mozilla introduces Collusion, an experimental tool that allows you to see who's tracking you online http://t.co/3bP1wqNj #

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