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Why does sensory deprivation cause hallucinations?
John C. Lilly performed the seminal experiment about sensory deprivation. The author isolated people in a sensory deprivation tank and they reported having experienced hallucinations.
Richard Feyman reported about his own experiences with…
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How can I find open access journals for cognitive science research?
What open access journals that publish research in cognitive science/psychology exist?
Apart from PLOS ONE, are there any other open access journals that publish research in cognitive science/psychology?
Where should I start looking for them?
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Why do we not remember things from the first couple of years of childhood?
As parents of a soon-to-be three-year-old, my wife and I spend a lot of time planning activities and trips for our son. However, my wife wanted to hold off on some of the big ones (i.e. Disney World), until he was "old enough to remember".
She…
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To what extent is time to complete an intelligence test incorporated into the IQ score?
In this previous question on scoring IQ tests the OP asked about the effect of speed of test, but it was a bit peripheral to the core question. So I thought I'd ask it as a separate question.
To slightly rephrase the question:
"If the speed with…
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Is there evidence that STDP is responsible for the ability to infer causation?
Spike timing dependent plasticity (STDP) is a property of synapses that modifies their efficacy based on timing relationships between action potentials in the pre-synaptic and post-synaptic neuron. A pre-synaptic neuron firing in a brief period…
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What are the neurological differences between varying types of love?
It stands to reason that the biochemical cascade involved when a person experiences love, gives a feeling of well-being and drive.
Studies in neuroscience have involved chemicals that are present in the brain and might be involved when people…
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Classification of Attachment Styles
The concept of attachment and different attachment styles has a long tradition in developmental psychology. Mary Ainsworth developed a classification for three different attachment styles that she called secure, insecure-resistant or synonymously…
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What were the long-term effects on the participants of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
It has been maintained by Dr. Philip Zimbardo that the experiment has had no long-term harm on the participants. However, one out of the 24 initial participants, who had suffered a breakdown within 36 hours of starting, later went on to become a…
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How do our emotions toward a subject affect our brain activity within similar activities?
I'll bring an example: there are people who love to dance and could do it for hours. Yet, if you'd make them run a long distance they would get tired really soon just because they don't like running not because they wouldn't have the stamina. On the…
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Does dopamine signal become stronger when goal distance is defined using time?
Howe et al (2013) found that a dopamine signal becomes stronger as a goal is approached. The experiment involved rats running in a maze. If the rats were close to solving the maze, the dopamine signal became strong. The intensity of this signal did…
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What decision problems are better answered with analytic thinking, and what are better answered with intuition?
Most Western philosophy and psychology argue that deliberating carefully and rationally is the right way of reaching a decision. "Don't let emotions turn you" they might say. The splitting of the mind into the two systems (intuitive System 1 vs.…
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Have humans always had problems with motivation and laziness?
I originally wanted to ask a question "Is there a drug for motivation or laziness", but google search revealed that people have been asking this question for years and there's no drug that is currently prescribed to fix those issues.
This makes me…
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Simulate colorblindness in non-colorblind individuals
Is there any way by which individuals with normal color vision could "see" the effects of Deuteranopia or any of the common colorblindness types, say by using special lenses or anything?
Color vision deficits can be approximated via filters on…
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Have there been any studies which report a positive correlation between eating certain foods and reported sleep disturbances?
This Skeptics question touched on the subject, but I'm more focused on studies that have been conducted under highly controlled circumstances, like a university sleep lab.
We've all heard these old wives' tales about eating before you go to bed, but…
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What makes someone attractive psychologically?
What makes a person particularly attractive to another person, specifically the opposite sex?
Why would the brain evolve this trait to target specific genes (that make someone look pretty), and exclude others (that make someone look ugly)?
This…
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