APA PsyTalks video series debuts with a talk by IU distinguished professor and chancellor's professor Linda Smith on how babies learn

The inaugural episode of PsyTalks, APA's series of 'TED-style' presentations by prominent psychologists, features IU distinguished professor and chancellor’s professor of psychological and brain sciences, Linda Smith, with an explanation of how movement and sight determine how babies learn.

As part of its public education campaign, APA is launching a video series titled PsyTalks with an episode explaining how babies' movements provide the experiences from which they learn. Linda Smith, distinguished professor and chancellor's professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University, hosts the episode, the first featuring psychology's leading researchers discussing their latest findings.

Check out Linda Smith's APA PsyTalk here:
       
http://www.apa.org/pubs/newsletters/access/2013/02-12/babies-learn.aspx

Brian D'Onofrio collaborates with theatre and drama director Lee Cromwell

In a Paris apartment two couples meet to discuss an unresolved playground altercation between their two sons. Tensions rise, higher and higher, provoking further conflict—and a painfully funny drama.

 A “theatre of nerves” is how playwright Yasmina Reza describes God of Carnage, her Tony-Award-winning play. So it is no surprise that PBS clinical psychology professor Brian D’Onofrio could shed light on the characters and their situation. Working with the cast on issues of marriage and parenting, impulsive behavior and stress, D’Onofrio collaborated as a consultant on the play.

The play runs from November 30 through December 8 at the Wells-Metz Theatre. For more information, go to http://www.indiana.edu/~thtr/productions/2012/carnage.shtml.

Mike Jones receives 2012 Early Career Investigator Award

Mike Jones has just received the 2012 Early Career Investigator Award from the Federation of Associations of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) for his work in computational models of cognition. The award is presented to early career scientists of FABBS member societies during the first 10 years post-PhD and recognizes scientists who have made outstanding research contributions to the sciences of mind, brain, and behavior. FABBS is the overarching federation that represents the major societies of behavioral and brain sciences.