Iris Berent in the Press
How should we do research on human nature?
Op-Ed by Iris Berent, professor of psychology at Northeastern University.
WHYY
Who We Are at Core
We chat with Iris Berent, a cognitive psychologist at Northeastern University, who studies human nature, and the moral implications of our “true selves.”
Op-Ed: Learning as meditation in a Zoom classroom
Iris Berent is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University. She is the author of “The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature.”
Scientific American
How Decoding Dyslexia Can Help Decode the Mind
If we were aware of the early warning signs, we could help these children by using research-based remediation. But dyslexia is poorly understood by the public. Iris Berent is a professor of psychology at Northeastern University.
Op-Ed: The real reason we’re afraid of robots
Iris Berent, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, is author of “The Blind Storyteller: How We Reason About Human Nature.”
Boston Magazine
Study sheds new light on how the brain processes speech
When it comes to the study of human physiology, few organs are more complex and intriguing than the human brain. Even though many areas of the brain are still a mystery to scientists, new research from Northeastern University, the University of Oxford, and several Boston institutions may help to bring researchers a step closer to understanding one of its most crucial functions: speech. In a […]
Fox News
Dyslexic brain hears fuzzy sounds
Dyslexia may be rooted in a problem the brain has in teasing out distinct sounds from the incoming garble, researchers say. Considered a learning disability, dyslexia makes it difficult to read and spell for the estimated 15 percent of Americans who have it. Although dyslexia causes reading problems, the disorder is often linked to subtle […]
Jagran Post
Doubts over actual cause of dyslexia
New research has argued that dyslexia may result from impairment of a different linguistic system than previously thought. Speech perception engages at least two linguistic systems: the phonetic system, which extracts discrete sound units from acoustic input, and the phonological system, which combines these units to form individual words. Previously, researchers generally believed that dyslexia […]
