From the Harvard Medical School press release: Scientists have long deemed the ability to recognize faces innate for people and other primates — something our brains just know how to do immediately from birth. However, the…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: A team of Columbia scientists has found that disruptions to the brain’s center for spatial navigation — its internal GPS — result in some of the…
From the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology press release: Scientists have found that brain functions in young men and women are changed by long-term alcohol use, but that these changes are significantly different in men and women.…
From the Frontiers press release: Researchers in the United States have investigated mind wandering in volunteers during a driving simulation. When prompted at random during the simulation, the volunteers reported mind wandering 70% of the…
From the University of Nottingham press release: Feeling tired? Even if we aren’t tired, why do we yawn if someone else does? Experts at the University of Nottingham have published research that suggests the human propensity…
From the Lund University press release: Alzheimer’s disease can lead to several widely divergent symptoms and, so far, its various expressions have mainly been observed through the behaviour and actions of patients. Researchers at Lund University…
From the Cell Press press release: There are many calculations at play in our minds when we make a decision, whether we are aware of them or not. Seventeenth-century mathematician Blaise Pascal first introduced the…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Nutrition has been linked to cognitive performance, but researchers have not pinpointed what underlies the connection. A new study by University of Illinois researchers found that monounsaturated…
From the New York University press release: Research on the neurobiology of bilingualism has suggested that switching languages is inherently effortful, requiring executive control to manage cognitive functions, but a new study shows this is only…
From the University of Luxembourg press release: In a pioneering study, researchers at the University of Luxembourg used fMRI technology to show that a person’s ability to reinterpret negative events and to control feelings influences how…