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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]