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I am looking for a theory (or research direction) to describe the following phenomenon: When I have two attributes of a stimulus, my evaluation of it might depend (non-additively) on the different ...

What happens when cerebrum and cerebellum are surgically separated (or partially separated)? Is this lethal, and if not, what are consequences for brain operations?

Although Mysophobia describes "a pathological fear of contamination and germs" and would most likely require what I'm about to describe, is there a name for the phenomenon when one is ...

I did a depolarization experiment that compared a mock-treated cell line with a treated line. One part of the results are easy to interpret: Treatment resulted in lower 350/380 ratios along the length ...

I'm writing my masters thesis in the field of computational neuroscience (using a spiking model). One of my supervisors is a cognitive scientist, who likes to use Marr's 3 levels of analysis. Marr's '...

There are several approaches to categorize personality characteristics into similar amount of types: the four temperament theory, DISC theory, the PAEI model. Is there any research about possible ...

Say we A-B tested user reactions to completing some task (e.g. transferring files, restarting their device): would people be quicker to get impatient/ annoyed if they got random percentages as ...

When still in primary school (I was about seven years) I had the strange habit (as did a girl who was, I guess, imitating me) of climbing a metal support pole. When I arrived at the top of the pole, I ...

I run a community for people who want to work long-term on climate change mitigation, and I'd love to know the research that could help bring more people into this space. I think specifically the ...

Quote from DSM-5: C. Onset of intellectual and adaptive deficits during the developmental period (Page 33: Diagnostic criteria for Intellectual Disability [Intellectual Development Disorder]). [...] ...

The question in final jeopardy tonight was "(What is) type A personality". My response was "alpha (male)", which I maintained was the same thing. Later, when I typed in "...

So I'm preparing for an exam and I see that when I'm at home I'm able to solve most of the questions from assignments , able to complete all the homework but at the point when I hear the word exam ...

This could be a question for parenting SE, but I am looking to understand the mechanism, so I am looking for a core answer from a psychological perspective; without all of the cultural noise that ...

My classmates and I are conducting a written paper on bransford and johnson's laundry experiment, but we cannot find good reliable sources on the original experiment to provide context and explanation ...

I am a mathematics student currently looking for connectome datasets specifically related to consciousness research. I have mainly looked at the following sites: https://neurodata.io/ https://db....

If some exogenous factor such as 5-HTP supplementation causes neurons to have a surplus of serotonin, will they reduce the amount of tryptophan hydroxylase so that incoming tryptophan will not be ...

"Relaxation increases awareness" I think most people would agree to this. "Relaxation increases fear". That's what I noticed. If I relax deeply (like taking a sauna), I feel very ...

I have been searching extensively on the internet and journal articles for the size, volume, dimensions, etc. of the central lateral nucleus in the anterior intralaminar thalamus in humans but have ...

So pain is the sensory feeling that tells indiviual that something bad at some part of the body has happened. What I fail to understand is how is pain subjective? If we have touch receptors in the ...

What is or might be a term for the inverse of a self-fulfilling prophecy? Something that someone else believes about a person whose actions make realized? In legal terms, the idea of being 'framed' ...

Is there a name for the process by which certain decisions come to be reinforced by the reward center in the human brain? In more complex situations I would like to understand how economic incentives ...

Some sources (eg, 1, 2) suggest that public goal setting can increase motivation for goal achievement through social contracting, and fear of public failure. However, other sources (eg, 1, 2) argue ...

I claim that "warnings are more likely to be read and taken seriously, if they are well-written, without errors". Is this claim supported by psychological science? Like, a warning on a ...

In the last decade, a lot of famous personalities and celebrities have opened up about suffering from mental disorders, largely depression. This has caused the younger generation to accept and seek ...

I am asking this question to assist with my work in the setting described below, and am working on the below mentioned spreadsheet as I write this. I thought this could be an interesting question to ...

I have been searching why different functions exist in even a similar structure cortex. The first reason is differences in cortical neuron density. The neuronal density contour plot (Fig. 1D) reveals ...

In other words, why are professionals/experts good at doing what they know to do for others but not for themselves ? What is the psychological bias behind this ? Of course this questions comes from ...

I am desperately researching the retest-reliability of the index "working memory" in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV). Unfortunately, I don't have the original manual at hand ...

The malleability of Intelligence is factually proven. I have written about short-term and long-term changes (due to pharmacological factors and environmental changes). Now I'm looking for more ...

I am acquiring eeg data with the ANT neuro's 64-channel system and I want to use eeglab to analyse the data. I am using Lab Streaming Layer (LSL) as software for data acquisition, which saves the file ...

From this Wikipedia article: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), formerly known as electroshock therapy, is a psychiatric treatment in which seizures in the brain (without muscular convulsions) are ...

Is there any kind of drug or chemical which can partially disable our brain functioning like the ability to plan/desire and higher thinking abilities, and: That can lower our desire to aspire, dream,...

I'm currently working on understanding how the conductivity of sodium, potassium and chloride channels are effected with different voltage inputs. I know that the conductivity of these channels are ...

This question has to do with how people perceive other accents. It seems that having a British accent makes someone seem more intelligent, even though that isn’t always true. As funny as it is, I ...

I was looking at different phyc products online and notice that some inventories are called personal inventories and some are called clincal. This made me wonder if this was just the name the ...

By accident, I stumbled over this optical illusion: It is not a strong one, and maybe you don't experience it, but I see the size of the circles in the second last row decrease from left to right. I ...

A recent question was asking around the subject of WEIRD psychology [WEIRD standing for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic — an acronym seemingly coined by Henrich, et al (2010)] ...

Since not all sexual assaulters are psychopaths or sadists as the media often chalks them up to ,there is scope to at least mend the thinking of some of the rapists, or any which haven't yet given in ...

Everything we perceive is through the 5 senses. That means the body which is perceived through sense of feeling and seeing is also formed as an image in mind or brain? Is it correct that it is either ...

I do not quite understand why people use both centre cue as well as double cue in the ATN task. For instance, some papers hold that Orienting = RT(double cue) - RT(spatial cue), whereas others define ...

I took the TRI-52, which is strongly correlated with other cognitive ability tests. When I first took it, I was tired, my mind was foggy, and my ADD was acting up -- I got a score of 116. The ...

What are the roots of the Intelligence question, i.e. since when do "humans" think about what "Intelligence" means and where it actually comes from? I did some digging in the greek ...

Weird question but basically I saw a ted talk video where a guy was asked to count backwards from 100 by 7 and I tried a long with him and failed miserably after the second subtraction, it upset me a ...

I am coming at this thinking about two different situations. Those in political parties digging in their heels and doubling down on their beliefs. Friends or relationship partners standing their ...

It is known that the average person can only hold 7 ± 2 items in their short term memory. Can this number be increased with training without the use of mnemonics (for example the major system or the ...

I have no educational background in psychology, just a casual curiosity. Do therapists need therapy because it’s impossible for people to see their own blind-spots (I think this is called the shadow)? ...

I am from India, and if you take a glance at the daily news you will see a lot of gruesome gangrapes and murders. Nirbhaya, Kathua rape case and the Hathras gangrape There are other such incidents ...

I made up this phrase "empathic amnesia" in an effort to try to describe a phenomena I have witnessed. I am not asking about empathy, but how when asking someone to recall information it can ...

Signals in the brain normally excite neurons only if they are well known, i. e. because synapses pass them on that grew during learning. But even for well-known patterns I could imagine that without ...

The basis of my experiment are 4 neutral text snippets. For each text snippet, I create an uncertain and a certain version so that I have a total of 8 text snippets (2 versions for each text snippet, ...