Psychology and More

Mind Hacks: start the week with neuroscience:

Andrew Marr, the presenter, uses this lovely metaphor for brain scanning. It is like, he said (i paraphrase), looking at the outside of a darkened house at night, a house which contains someone moving from room to room turning on and off lights as they do. So when we look at an fMRI scan we might know which neural and/or mental ‘room’ they are in, but we’ve no idea what they’re doing there.

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Well, the experiment begins folks. I have created a Podcast of my lecture from this week. Try this out and listen using your favorite podcast client. Subscribe to http://danaleighton.edublogs.org/feed/ in the podcast client, and the newest podcast will be downloaded automatically.

Some podcast clients:

Free, open-source, multiple platforms:
http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/index.php

Free, Windows & Mac OS X:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/

Free, Windows only:
http://www.nimiq.nl/

Shareware, Windows only:
http://www.dorada.co.uk/

Shareware, Mac OS X only:
http://www.iggsoftware.com/playpod/

UPDATE (June ‘06):
Download using this link to subscribe (if you have iTunes).

If not, subscribe to the following feed: http://homepage.mac.com/danaleighton/podcast/General_Psychology_Lectures.rss

This posting initiates a new weblog specifically for my Psychology classes – Psychology and More. Let me know if you encounter any problems reading it or using its features. I will also be commenting on teaching and research in general here, so stay tuned.