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About
The Motivated Cognition Lab is directed by Dr. Rebecca Todd. Our research interests lie at the interface between emotion and cognition. Specifically, we investigate neurocognitive processes that underlie the influence of emotion on what we attend to, learn, and later remember. Our questions focus on how people perceive some aspects of the world as more…
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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 This paper questioned if computers were as good to learn from as books or real life. The training was to learn things used by nurses…
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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 1st author’s mother Human feelings are considered to come from the brain, which makes choices about information from our senses to decide how we…
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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 by Common Variation in Norepinephrine Receptor Function. bioRxiv. http://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.202 It is well known that things that make us excited drive parts of the brain that are important…
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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 being different in this way. (Norepinephrine is a tiny brain message thing that helps you be more excited and pay attention to what is important.)…
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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 it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Whitman, J.C., Zhao, J.,…
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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 it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Ehlers, M. R. &…
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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 it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Roberts, K. H., Truong,…
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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 it not only clears out the jargon to help non-experts understand our research, it helps us understand our research better too. Whitman, J. C., Zhao,…
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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 support of science and environmental issues, as well as your defense of treatment options for those who suffer PTSD. And for your bird book, which…