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Listen to Dean Simonton's take on creativity and genius on the latest episode of Freakonomics Radio.

George “Ron” Mangun receives $2.7 million grant from NIH to search for attention-related microstructures in the human brain. “We are going to investigate brain attention systems with a higher resolution than has ever been attempted in humans,” said Mangun, distinguished professor in the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain and the Departments of Psychology and Neurology.

Rick Robins has received a $3.9 million NIH grant to continue the California Families Project, an 11-year longitudinal study that aims to understand and promote the health and well-being of Mexican-origin youth and their parents.

Read Rick Robin's comments in Science Mag and Scientific American on a recent paper on personality types in Nature Human Behavior,

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Full interview is here: http://time.com/5408567/christine-blasey-ford-science-of-memory/

Phillip R. Shaver, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He joined the faculty of UC Davis in 1992 after serving on the faculties of Columbia University, New York University, University of Denver, and SUNY at Buffalo. His research deals with attachment theory, close relationships, human emotions, and personality development.

We know instinctively that our experiences shape the way we learn. If we are highly familiar with a particular task, like cooking for example, learning a new recipe is much easier than it was when we were a novice. New research from Dr. Wiltgen’s laboratory shows that experience also changes the way our neurons become plastic and form new memories. Listen to an interview with Dr. Wiltgen on KWMR http://kwmr.org/shows/arts-desire

We know instinctively that our experiences shape the way we learn. If we are highly familiar with a particular task, like cooking for example, learning a new recipe is much easier than it was when we were a novice. New research from Dr. Wiltgen's lab shows that experience also changes the way our neurons become plastic and form new memories.

The work is published online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology.

New research by Paul Eastwick and colleagues shows that romantic interest rises at the same rate in both short-term and long-term relationships. At some point, however, romantic interest tends to plateau and decline in short-term relationships, while in long-term relationships, it continues to ascend and reaches a higher peak.