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,… Read more »
From the Yale University press release: Experienced meditators seem to be able switch off areas of the brain associated with daydreaming as well as psychiatric disorders such as autism and… Read more »
From the University of Rochester press release: The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists… Read more »
From the Max Planck Institute press release: The structure of the corpus callosum, a thick band of nerve fibres that connects the two halves of the brain with each other… Read more »
From the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology press release: Whether comparing a man and a woman or a parent and a baby, we can still see when two… Read more »
From the University of Chicago Press Journals, via Eurekalert: Toting a heavy item around may cause you to judge an issue to be more important, according to a new study… Read more »
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: New research identifies the brain chemicals and circuits involved in mental illnesses like schizophrenia, depression, and anxiety, giving potential new directions to their… Read more »
From the Georgetown University press release: Skilled readers can recognize words at lightning fast speed when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts,… Read more »
From the University of Massachussetts Amherst press release: Neuroscientists have long known that memory, sleep quality and sleep duration deteriorate with age, yet sleep enhances two major types of learning… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: If you tell yourself that someone who’s being mean is just having a bad day—it’s not about you—you may actually be able… Read more »
