From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Men and women may be equals, but they often behave differently when it comes to sex and parenting. Now a study of the differences between the brains…
From the Stanford School of Medicine press release: For the first time, researchers have scanned the brains of children watching funny videos to examine which of their brain regions are active as their sense of…
From the Dartmouth College press release: For Bradley Duchaine, there is definitely more than meets the eye where faces are concerned. With colleagues at Birkbeck College in the University of London, he is investigating the…
From the University of Bristol press release via EurekAlert!: New findings, led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol and published this week in the journal Neurobiology of Aging, reveal a novel mechanism through which…
From the University of Queensland press release via MedicalXPress: Want to know why sports fans get so worked up when they think the referee has wrongly called their team’s pass forward, their player offside, or…
From the UC Berkeley press release: Neuroscientists may one day be able to hear the imagined speech of a patient unable to speak due to stroke or paralysis, according to University of California, Berkeley, researchers.…
From the Max Planck Institute press release: Holding information within one’s memory for a short while is a seemingly simple and everyday task. We use our short-term memory when remembering a new telephone number if…
From the University of Reading press release via HealthCanal: Dr Carien van Reekum, a researcher at the University’s Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics (CINN), is due to begin a £465,000 study this year after…
From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release: Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain’s cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received — a…
From the Northwestern University press release: Age-related delays in neural timing are not inevitable and can be avoided or offset with musical training, according to a new study from Northwestern University. The study is the…