Entradas de] Adolfo Garcia

A moving story: Whole-body motor training selectively improves the appraisal of action meanings in naturalistic narratives

Trevisan P, Sedeño L, Birba A, Ibáñez A, García, AM (2017) Scientific Reports 7, 12538. En este trabajo, evaluamos si la estimulación corporal ecológica puede mejorar la comprensión de acciones en textos naturalistas. Primero, 20 niños con dislexia realizaron pruebas de comprensión de narraciones con alto y bajo contenido motor. Luego, se estimuló su sistema motor mediante videojuegos […]

BID and INECO will study the conduct to develop public policies

  The Inter-American Development Bank (BID) and the INECO Foundation developed the first Latin American Network of Human Behavior and Public Policies, which seeks to go from the private to the general, understanding how we think and act to conform standards and public policies that are appropriate for community.   To real full note please […]

First International Congress on Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition

  On September 1-2, the city of Mendoza welcomed experts from the word over at the The First International Congress on Translation, Interpreting, and Cognition. Hosted by Aconcagua Univresity, the National University of Cuyo, and the LPEN-INCYT, the event brought together over 200 attendees, 40 presenters, and keynote speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Germany, and […]

The impact of our research on the international media

We are proud to inform that our recent paper in Nature Human Behavior (Outcome-oriented moral evaluation in terrorists) has had an outstanding impact across the globe (Altmetric > 390, in the top 5% of all Altmetric publications). Fifteen days after it was published, the paper ranked first in readings and reached high visibility in international media. The work […]

It’s never too late to start over

  Agustín Ibáñez, director of the Institute of Cognitive and Translational Neuroscience (Ineco / Conicet / Fundación Favaloro), explains: «Some studies show poor performance in 40% of adults between 60 and 70 years old. We also know that some processes (semantic processing, implicit memory, emotional self-regulation) can keep improving in old age, and that brain […]

When envy causes pleasure

The pleasure before the misfortune of others is a normal psychological phenomenon that has explanation and meaning.     To real full note please click here