By admin on 26/07/2009
The sort of mental processes described as cognitive are largely influenced by research which has successfully used this paradigm in the past, likely starting with Thomas Aquinas, who divided the study of behavior into two broad categories: cognitive (how we know the world), and affect (feelings and emotions). Consequently, this description tends to apply to [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Cognitive, Mental processes |
By admin on 27/03/2009
A collaborative study led by researchers at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), McGill University has demonstrated a positive link between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in the brains of healthy 6 to 18 year olds. The correlation is evident in regions that integrate information from different parts of the brain. The imaging study published this [...]
Posted in General | Tagged behavioural skills, brain development, brain size, intelligence, relationship |
By admin on 22/03/2009
A recent volume of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences takes a closer look at how music evolved and how we respond to it. Contributors to the volume believe that animals such as birds, dolphins and whales make sounds analogous to music out of a desire to imitate each other. This ability [...]
Posted in General | Tagged classical music, Emotions, music's positive effects, reviving memory |
By admin on 22/03/2009
It’s important to understand the complexity of the human brain. The human brain weighs only three pounds but is estimated to have about 100 billion cells. It is hard to get a handle on a number that large (or connections that small). Let’s try to get an understanding of this complexity by comparing it with [...]
Posted in General | Tagged big computer, brain works, electrical and chemical machine, neurobiological, vision |
By admin on 22/03/2009
Generally speaking, death cannot be represented in dreams as such, as it is no psychic content to be experienced, lived. Hence the conclusion that, when dreams about dying do occur, we have to interpret this in a completely different direction. Dreams about dying are not infrequent. It has been conclude that such dreams are also [...]
Posted in General | Tagged Clinical psychology, Dream Theorists, dreaming about dying, dreams, reviving memory, symbolic death |
By admin on 18/01/2009
Women with higher estrogen levels more likely to shop for mates, UT study finds. Estrogen, it would seem, has a good reason for being called the female sex hormone. New research from the University of Texas suggests that women with higher levels of estrogen might feel a stronger urge than women with less of it [...]
Posted in General | Tagged attractive woman, estrogen, estrogen levels, flirting, kissing, physical attractiveness, sex hormone |
By admin on 07/01/2009
Extant conclusions by psychologists, such as Freud, Adler, Jung, Horney, Fromm, Laing, Skinner, Maslow, Allport, Lewin, Carl Rogers, Eysenck, Harry Stack Sullivan, Ellis, Becks etc are interesting speculations on the nature of human behavior but not science. None of those conjectures have been demonstrated as true. It is only when we can show the self [...]
Posted in General | Tagged psychoanalysis, Psychology, science |