From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: People who like to nap say it helps them focus their minds post a little shut eye. Now, a study from Georgetown University Medical Center…
From the University of Rochester press release via EurekAlert!: Cognitive scientists have good news for linguistic purists terrified about the corruption of their mother tongue. Using an artificial language in a carefully controlled laboratory experiment,…
From the Clemson University press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers are exploring how specific online communication attitudes — such as individuals’ tendency for online self-disclosure, online social connection, and online anxiety — predicted their compulsive and…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: We’ve all been warned not to “judge a book by its cover,” but inevitably we do it anyway. It’s difficult to resist the temptation of assuming that…
From the University of British Columbia press release via ScienceDaily: Maternal depression and a common class of antidepressants can alter a crucial period of language development in babies, according to a new study by researchers…
From the Duke University press release via ScienceDaily: Guys who imitate Luciano Pavarotti or Justin Bieber to get the girls aren’t alone. Male mice may do a similar trick, matching the pitch of other males’…
From the Radboud University Nijmegen via ScienceDaily: Alpha waves were long ignored, but gained interest of brain researchers recently. Electrical activity of groups of brain cells results in brain waves with different amplitudes. The so-called…
From the Washington and Lee University press release via Newswise: Contrary to economic research that suggested tougher return policies, a new study published in the September issue of the Journal of Marketing strongly recommends a…
From the Elsevier press release via AlphaGalileo: A new study reinforces the finding that a region of the genome involved in immune system function, called the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), is involved in the genetic…
From the Springer Science+Business Media press release via ScienceDaily: The experience of being bullied is particularly detrimental to the psychological health of school girls who don’t have social support from either adults or peers, according…