From the IOS Press press release via MedicalXpress: In the last ten years, a new understanding of pediatric brain injury and recovery has emerged. Professionals now understand that recovery may be a lifelong process for…
From the Stanford University Medical Center press release by Bruce Goldman via ScienceDaily: Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have laid bare a novel molecular mechanism responsible for the most important symptom of major depression:…
From the National Institutes of Health press release via MedicalXpress: People who are born deaf process the sense of touch differently than people who are born with normal hearing, according to research funded by the…
From the Royal Holloway, University of London press release via MedicalXpress: Have you ever found yourself paying attention to the sound of your footsteps when walking down a quiet corridor? Or perhaps you enjoy creating…
From the University of Texas at Austin, Texas Advanced Computing Center press release via ScienceDaily: Alzheimer’s disease is one of the most dreaded and debilitating illnesses one can develop. Currently, the disease afflicts 6.5 million…
From the Brown University press release via EurekAlert!: So far it has seemed an irreparable limitation of human perception that we strain to perceive things in the very rapid succession of, say, less than half…
From the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) press release via ScienceDaily: Photographs of faces may not be adequate proof of a person’s identity and this could have serious implications for the accuracy of passport…
From the Duke University press release via ScienceDaily: Although many areas of the human brain are devoted to social tasks like detecting another person nearby, a new study has found that one small region carries…
From the Universiteit van Amsterdam press release via AlphaGalileo: In a forthcoming issue of Topics in Cognitive Science researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) argue that at least two, seemingly trivial musical skills can…
From the IOS Press press release via EurekAlert!: Sensory substitution devices (SSDs) use sound or touch to help the visually impaired perceive the visual scene surrounding them. The ideal SSD would assist not only in…