From BPS Research Digest, a link to a study that found a group people with Tourette’s syndrome to outperform control subjects on an eye-movement task: ‘The researchers said the patients’ superior performance at the task “may reflect a compensatory change in which the chronic suppression of tics results in a generalised suppression of reflexive behaviour in favour of increased cognitive control”.’

My only criticism of the news article is that, in writing, “they actually have greater cognitive control than healthy people,” there is the implication that people with Tourette’s are unhealthy, which doesn’t seem quite right to me.

P.S. On an unrelated note: the BPS digest has several links, including one to this cool Deception Blog.