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 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 University of Western Ontario press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers at Western University have created a mouse model that reproduces some of the chemical changes in the brain that occur with Alzheimer’s, shedding new…
From the Stony Brook Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: Researchers from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Stony Brook University have developed a high-resolution, 3D optical Doppler imaging tomography technique that captures the effects of…
From the Stanford University press release by Bjorn Carey via ScienceDaily: If a 7-year-old is breezing through the “Harry Potter” books, studies indicate that he or she will be a strong reader later in life.…
From the Springer Science+Business Media press release via ScienceDaily: A new study provides evidence that gamblers interpret near-misses as frustrating losses rather than near-wins. This frustration stimulates the reward systems in the brain to promote…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified small variations in a number of genes that are closely linked to an…
From the Lancaster University press release via AlphaGalileo: A new study from Lancaster University has found that sleeping on a problem really can help people to find a solution. The study, published online this week…
From the NYU press release via EurekAlert!: Neuroscientists from New York University and the University of California, Irvine have isolated the “when” and “where” of molecular activity that occurs in the formation of short-, intermediate-,…