Editor’s Selections: Changing perceptions of obesity, growing neurons in chickadees, and more
December 1st, 2009 Editor's Selections 17 CommentsDave Munger selects several notable posts each week from psychology and neuroscience. He blogs at Cognitive Daily and has a weekly column on SEEDMAGAZINE.COM.
- The fatter we get, the less we seem to notice. Peter Janiszewski examines changing perceptions of what it means to be “overweight.”
- Barn owls use feathers to find sounds. A new study confirms that the facial ruff of barn owls is used to locate the origin of sounds.
- How to build a criminal line-up. Fake features on the distractors, not the suspect.
- Birds do generate new brain cells — but only in the wild. A fascinating study on wild versus captive birds.
- If brain damage causes pedophilia, how should we treat the pedophile? A troubling case study.