Painful attachments

A recent study by researchers from University College and Kings Cross College in London and the University of Hertfordshire made headlines  at the start of January 2015 with its conclusions that some women would find childbirth easier if their partner was not with them during labour. The study was actually about attachment, because the researchers were interested in […]

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Video: Mindcraft

The Wellcome Collection has launched a six part digital narrative called Mindcraft about theories of the mind of the late eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries: just late enough to cover Freud. Worth a look for an interesting way of telling a digital story. Click here to explore Mindcraft for yourself.

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The gateway to memory

Psychologists have known for many years that memories are primarily stored in the cerebral cortex of the brain, and that a ‘control centre’ buried deep in the brain, is involved in both creating memories and retrieving them from their store in the cerebral cortex: made up of the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex. In November […]

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fMRI in action

The new AQA spec (soon to be approved, we hear) includes, at A Level, ‘ways of studying the brain: scanning techniques, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)’. This YouTube video gives a functional, magnetic and resonant view of what fMRI involves and what its results look like in practice. The AQA spec is concerned with the […]

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Yarmey (1993) and significant differences

Judit Lőcsei-Campbell contacted Cara to let us know her students  spotted a discrepancy between the current (third) edition of The Complete Companion student book (AQA A) and the previous (second) edition. While the second edition says (on page 35) that Yarmey (1993) found no significant differences in the accuracy of recall that could be attributed […]

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A peak at our new Companions

Our fabulous authors Cara Flanagan, Mike Cardwell, Ros Geillis and Mike Griffin have been VERY hard at work on the A Level Year 1/AS Complete Companion student book (Cara and Mike C) and Teacher’s Companion (Ros and Mike G), making sure they are the best resources possible to support the new AQA specification. You can […]

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