From the University College London press release: Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown. In the first functional MRI…
From the Queens University press release: Researchers have identified the area of the brain that controls our ability to correct our movement after we’ve been hit or bumped— a finding that may have implications for…
From the Brown University press release: People typically say they are invoking an ethical principle when they judge acts that cause harm more harshly than willful inaction that allows that same harm to occur. That…
From the Association of Psychological Science press release: “Imagine you are playing ping-pong with a friend. Your friend makes a serve. Information about where and when the ball hit the table is provided by both…
From the University of Hull press release: Scientists at the University of Hull have found that some people have the ability to hallucinate colours at will – even without the help of hypnosis. The study,…
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…