Babies learn the difference between “us” and “them” fairly early in life.
Social categorization (the process of dividing the world into groups based on features such as gender, race and nationality) can be a useful strategy when you’re new to the world and trying to process a flood of information with your developing brain, according to UCSB developmental, evolutionary and social psychologist Zoe Liberman.
The act of creating groups for instance, all the objects that can be categorized as some type of chair serves as an efficient learning tool for minds still learning to grasp the world around them.
Chronobiology International. The monthly biomedical journal specializes in the study of biological rhythms and applications in medicine.
Refinetti is a biological and comparative psychologist. His research concentrates on behavioral and physiological mechanisms, including neural mechanisms, responsible for biological rhythms, particularly daily or circadian rhythms.
Refinetti, who was selected for the post by a search committee, assumed his duties with the journal on April 1.
“As the editor-in-chief, my job is to coordinate the peer review of submissions; that is, to decide whether articles that are submitted are worthy of publication,” Refinetti said. “I have appointed four associate editors to assist me in evaluating the merits of submission.”
Dr. Alex Martin, Ph.D.
Dr. Martin received his B.A. from the City College of New York and his Ph.D. from the City University of New York. He did his post-doctoral work at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke on the breakdown of language and memory processes in Alzheimer s disease. In 1985 he joined the faculty of the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences where he studied cognitive dysfunction associated with HIV infection. In 1990 he moved to the NIMH where he continued his work on cognitive abnormalities in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders and on the organization of perceptual and memory functions in the human brain. In 1997 Dr. Martin became the Chief of the Cognitive Neuropsychology Section, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition. Dr. Martin is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association.
Dr. Elisabeth A. Murray
Biography
Dr. Murray received her B.S. in Biology from Bucknell University and her Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, where she studied the organization of corticospinal neurons. After postdoctoral work at the NIMH with Mort Mishkin studying the neural substrates of tactual learning and memory, she became a Staff Fellow and then a tenured faculty member within the Laboratory of Neuropsychology, NIMH. Dr. Murray was awarded the Demuth Swiss Medical Research Foundation Award for Young Investigators in the Neurosciences and a PHS Special Recognition Award.
In 1996, Dr. Murray was appointed Chief, Section on the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, NIMH. In 2014, Dr. Murray became Chief of the Laboratory of Neuropsychology at NIMH. She is an elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.