From the University of Cambridge press release: When a parent and infant interact, various aspects of their behaviour can synchronise, including their gaze, emotions and heartrate, but little is known about whether their brain activity…
From the University of New South Wales press release: As far our brain is concerned, talking to ourselves in our heads may be fundamentally the same as speaking our thoughts out loud, new research shows.…
From the Harvard Medical School press release: How do we recognize others? How do we know friend from foe, threat from reward? How does the brain compute the multitude of cues telling us that Susan…
From the Carnegie Mellon University press release: How is it that we are able–without any noticeable effort–to listen to a friend talk in a crowded café or follow the melody of a violin within an…
From the University of Bristol press release: In the largest study of its kind, researchers from the University of Bristol have analysed mood indicators in text from 800 million anonymous messages posted on Twitter. These…
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU) press release: Learning requires the chemical adaptation of individual synapses. Researchers have now revealed the impact of an RNA-binding protein that is intimately involved in this process on learning and…
From the Goethe University Frankfurt press release: Differences in intelligence have so far mostly been attributed to differences in specific brain regions. However, are smart people’s brains also wired differently to those of less intelligent…
From the Radiological Society of North America press release: Information from brain MRIs can help identify people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and distinguish among subtypes of the condition, according to a study appearing…
From the University of Twente press release: Using ‘Raman’ optical technology, scientists of the University of Twente in The Netherlands, can now produce images of brain tissue that is affected by Alzheimer’s disease. The images…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Centuries of study have yielded many theories about how the brain gives rise to human intelligence. Some neuroscientists think intelligence springs from a single region or…