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Sense and timing: Localizing objects during emotional distraction.

  A simple writer summary of: Kryklywy, J.H., Dudarev, V. & Todd, R.M. (2021). Sense and timing: Localizing objects during emotional distraction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. […]

Posted on December 3, 2021June 9, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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Can nurses train surgical skills through tablet games?

A simple-writer summary of: Kryklywy, J.H., Roach, V.A. & Todd, M.R. (2021) Assessing the efficacy of tablet-based simulations for learning surgery-like instrumentation. PLOS-ONE, 16(1): e0245330. By the first Author’s mother […]

Posted on April 27, 2021May 27, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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Emotion is sensation.

Kryklywy, J.H., Ehlers, M.R., Anderson, A.K. & Todd, R.M. (2020) From architecture to evolution: Multisensory evidence of decentralized emotion. Trends in Cognitive Science. IN PRESS TICS paper through the eyes of the […]

Posted on October 13, 2020May 27, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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Paying more attention to things that are good for us even if they don’t matter at the moment cannot be explained by tiny brain message things that make us excited

Roberts, K. H., Manaligod, M. G. M., Ross, C. J. D., Mueller, D. J., Wieser, M. J., & Todd, R. M. (2018). Affectively-biased Competition Favoring Rewarding Expressions is Not Modulated […]

Posted on October 21, 2018May 27, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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Worry system in the brain can change how much happy you see in a face

People are different in how much they pay attention to good things and bad things. We know that the norepinephrine system in our bodies has something to do with people […]

Posted on October 15, 2018May 27, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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If you don’t worry about changes made by people in how hot the air is, you will not see the signs.

Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/). We find […]

Posted on December 18, 2017June 9, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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After things that worry us happen, we don’t use new learning to get good things!

Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/). We find […]

Posted on September 28, 2017May 27, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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Blur of Pleasure

Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/). We find […]

Posted on September 22, 2017May 27, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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Switching between different kinds of information makes it harder to see how bad a problem is

Inspired by XKCD comics’ Thing Explainer, we are now posting descriptions of our new publications as they come out using the 1000 most commonly used English words (http://xkcd.com/simplewriter/). We find […]

Posted on July 8, 2017May 27, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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Letter to MP – Support The Report

Richard Cannings, MP 1695A Columbia Avenue Castlegar, British Columbia V1N 1J1 Telephone: 250-365-2792 July 4, 2017 Dear Mr. Cannings, First of all, I want to thank you for your longstanding […]

Posted on July 4, 2017May 27, 2023 by mclabadmin@psych.ubc.ca
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