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 schizophrenia, according to a new…
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 at the University of Rochester,…
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 and in this way enables…
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 people of different age or…
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 in the Journal of Consumer…
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 treatment. In addition, research with…
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, say Georgetown University Medical Center…
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 in young people. To date,…
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 to stave off bad feelings,…
From the University of Texas-Austin press release: Intelligence and smart thinking are not the same, according to University of Texas at Austin psychologist Art Markman, who studies how best to apply knowledge for smarter thinking…