From the Association of Psychological Science press release: “Face recognition is an important social skill, but not all of us are equally good at it,†says Beijing Normal University cognitive psychologist Jia Liu. But what…
From the University of Georgia press release by Philip Williams: Cortisol may be the Swiss Army knife of hormones in the human body-just when scientists think they understand what it does, another function pops up.…
From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem press release, via EurekAlert!: What distinguishes information processing with conscious awareness from processing occurring without awareness? And, is there any role for conscious awareness in information processing, or is…
From the Elsevier press release: Children with dyslexia often find it difficult to count the number of syllables in spoken words or to determine whether words rhyme. These subtle difficulties are seen across languages with…
From the Radiological Society of North America press release: Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers have identified abnormalities in the brains of children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that may serve as a biomarker…
From the Max Planck Institute press release: Over the years pianists develop a particularly acute sense of the temporal correlation between the movements of the piano keys and the sound of the notes played. However,…
From the University of Arizona press release: Distinct neural pathways are important for different aspects of language processing, researchers have discovered, studying patients with language impairments caused by neurodegenerative diseases. While it has long been…
From the UC Berkeley press release: UC Berkeley researchers have found that during the dream phase of sleep, also known as REM sleep, our stress chemistry shuts down and the brain processes emotional experiences and…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: As we get older, our cognitive abilities change, improving when we’re younger and declining as we age. Scientists posit a hierarchical structure within which these abilities are…
From the Association of Psychological Science press release: The visual system constantly takes in ambiguous stimuli, weighs its options, and decides what it perceives. This normally happens effortlessly. Sometimes, however, an ambiguity is persistent, and…