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Pinker, who delivered his spiel for starch in characteristic PowerPoint form, introduced a forthcoming book, “The Latke Instinct: Why Latkes are Compatible with Universal Grammar and Human Nature.” The psychologist has penned many bestsellers, including a 1994 book titled “The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language...
...enter college, she found she no longer fit in with her tennis friends and felt lonelier than ever.“I went through a period of depression last year,” she says. “Especially before coming to college. Literally, I was seeing a psychologist and psychiatrist hardcore. I felt like I had no motivation to play on the team.”She also experienced the kid-in-the-candy-store effect that afflicts some homeschoolers entering college.“Freshman year I was the biggest partier ever,” she says...
...first, it looks just like any other large departmental lecture. Scattered chairs and desks are filled in a large room by 140 students listening with varying levels of attentiveness. Professor Amy Baltzell speaks about the psychology behind intrinsic motivation, referencing a required reading from The American Psychologist...
...that was registered somewhere in the brain were constantly being delivered to them. Instead, our working memory and spotlight of attention receive executive summaries of the events and states that are most relevant to updating an understanding of the world and figuring out what to do next. The cognitive psychologist Bernard Baars likens consciousness to a global blackboard on which brain processes post their results and monitor the results of the others...
...even more provocative result comes from a study undertaken in 2005 by UCLA developmental psychologist Mirella Dapretto and her colleagues. They found that autistic children, compared with other children, showed depressed activity in their premotor cortex while imitating or observing facial expressions--and the more severe the autism, the more depressed the activity was. The results did not surprise Dapretto. A central problem in autism, after all, is an impaired ability to understand the feelings of others, and it seems plausible, if far from proven, that a deficiency in the mirror-neuron system could be involved...