From the University of Houston media release: This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. This week also marks a watershed ruling by a federal appeals court striking down the controversial Texas…
From the American Technion Society media release: Despite the use of smiley faces and exclamation points, it is all too easy to misinterpret sarcasm, humor, irony or determination in a text or email message. That may…
From the University of Virginia media release: The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling legalizing marriage between same-sex couples in all 50 states follows on the heels of national polls showing rapid cultural changes in attitudes toward…
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison media release: If you have two working eyes, you are live streaming two images of the world into your brain. Your brain combines the two to produce a view of…
From the University of Oslo media release: A newborn infant can see its parents’ expressions at a distance of 30 cm. For the first time researchers have managed to reconstruct infants visual perception of the…
From the University of California – Berkeley media release: Like homing pigeons, humans have a nose for navigation because our brains are wired to convert smells into spatial information, new research from UC Berkeley shows. While…
From the Monash University media release: Researchers at Monash University have found physical differences in the brains of people who respond emotionally to others’ feelings, compared to those who respond more rationally, in a study…
From the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus media release: Mindfulness — an ancient Buddhist approach to meditation — is attracting increasing attention in the 21st century as a non-invasive treatment for stress and depression. But can it…
From the University of Cambridge media release: Research using gambling techniques shows that even very recent experiences carry a ‘temporal markdown’ so that those more immediate carry disproportionate weight in decision-making, meaning that a ‘happy…
From the Vanderbilt University media release: Musicians don’t just hear in tune, they also see in tune. That is the conclusion of the latest scientific experiment designed to puzzle out how the brain creates an…