Practical Neuroscience

Science And The Structure Of An Argument: How To Sort Good Information From Bad.

Apr 16, 2017

This content of this blog is adapted from my lecture on Cognitive Bias in Decision Making, for the module Cognition and Emotion. I present this lecture to third year Psychology students at the University of Roehampton, London. The Structure of an ArgumentHow to sort good information from bad!

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Dr. Paul Bretherton, Ph.D., is a Cognitive Neuroscientist who specialises in research on visual attention, perception, and memory using EEG. Who also has in interest in attentional deficit and performance enhancement. Paul was born and raised in Bri…

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