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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
From the Mount Sinai Hospital press release via EurekAlert: New research presented in October at the 6th Neurodegenerative Conditions Research and Development Conference in San Francisco demonstrates the role of the investigational compound IRX4204 in…