From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: The whiskers of newborn rats twitch as they sleep, and that could open the door to new understandings about the intimate connections between brain and body. The…
From the Penn State press release via EurekAlert!: Men and women who are expectant parents have different stress reactions to relationship conflict, according to researchers at Penn State, who studied couples expecting their first child.…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: If only there were a way to forget that humiliating faux pas at last night’s dinner party. It turns out there’s not one, but two opposite ways…
From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: People who like to nap say it helps them focus their minds post a little shut eye. Now, a study from Georgetown University Medical Center…
From the University of Rochester press release via EurekAlert!: Cognitive scientists have good news for linguistic purists terrified about the corruption of their mother tongue. Using an artificial language in a carefully controlled laboratory experiment,…
From the Clemson University press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers are exploring how specific online communication attitudes — such as individuals’ tendency for online self-disclosure, online social connection, and online anxiety — predicted their compulsive and…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: We’ve all been warned not to “judge a book by its cover,” but inevitably we do it anyway. It’s difficult to resist the temptation of assuming that…
From the University of British Columbia press release via ScienceDaily: Maternal depression and a common class of antidepressants can alter a crucial period of language development in babies, according to a new study by researchers…
From the Duke University press release via ScienceDaily: Guys who imitate Luciano Pavarotti or Justin Bieber to get the girls aren’t alone. Male mice may do a similar trick, matching the pitch of other males’…
From the Radboud University Nijmegen via ScienceDaily: Alpha waves were long ignored, but gained interest of brain researchers recently. Electrical activity of groups of brain cells results in brain waves with different amplitudes. The so-called…