Study looks at how the brain controls habits
From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via ScienceDaily: Habits are behaviors wired so deeply in our brains that we perform them automatically. This allows you to follow the same route to work every…
Study examines neural underpinnings of musical timbre
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: New research, published in PLOS Computational Biology, offers insight into the neural underpinnings of musical timbre. Mounya Elhilali, of Johns Hopkins University and colleagues have…
Study suggests humans are naturally biased to look at eyes, not heads
From the Royal Society press release via MedicalXpress: New research published in Biology Letters today shows that humans are biased to look at eyes… even those of headless monsters! The findings from the universities of…
Study suggests in-sync brain waves hold memory of objects just seen
From the NIH/National Institute of Mental Health press release via EurekAlert!: The brain holds in mind what has just been seen by synchronizing brain waves in a working memory circuit, an animal study supported by…
Researcher suggests brain imaging alone cannot diagnose autism
From the McLean Hospital press release via EurekAlert!: In a column appearing in the current issue of the journal Nature, McLean Hospital biostatistician Nicholas Lange, ScD, cautions against heralding the use of brain imaging scans…
Study looks at how empathy and analytic thought interact in the brain
From the Case Western Reserve University press release via EurekAlert!: New research shows a simple reason why even the most intelligent, complex brains can be taken by a swindler’s story – one that upon a…
Study suggests brain waves reveal video game aptitude
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release via EurekAlert!: Scientists report that they can predict who will improve most on an unfamiliar video game by looking at their brain waves. They describe their…
Study suggests feelings of loneliness may be linked to social perception ability
From the University College London press release via HealthCanal: Researchers from UCL have found that lonely people have less grey matter in a part of the brain associated with decoding eye gaze and other social…
Study suggests that at 6 months development of children with autism resembles that of non-autistic children
From the Society for Research in Child Development press release via EurekAlert!: The development of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is much like that of children without ASD at 6 months of age, but…
Study finds new clues to how the brain and body communicate to regulate weight
From the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: Maintaining a healthy body weight may be difficult for many people, but it’s reassuring to know that our brains and bodies are wired to…