From the RIKEN press release via ScienceDaily and ResearchSEA: Imaging data suggest that conscious perception has little to do with the primary visual cortex — the region where visual information enters the brain. From a…
From the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (Paris) press release via HealthCanal: Schizophrenia is a mental illness that seriously affects social interaction. Recent studies have shown that people with schizophrenia have difficulty in interpreting…
From the University of Warwick press release: Humans move between ‘patches’ in their memory using the same strategy as bees flitting between flowers for pollen or birds searching among bushes for berries. Researchers at the…
From the Springer press release via AlphaGalileo: Scientists have found that the capacity of the human brain to process and record information – and not economic constraints – may constitute the dominant limiting factor for…
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 Wichita State University press release: Sending a text message leads people to lie more often than in other forms of communication, according to new research by David Xu, assistant professor in the W.…
From the UC Berkeley press release: For centuries, gossip has been dismissed as salacious, idle chatter that can damage reputations and erode trust. But a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, suggests rumor-mongering…
From the UC Davis press release: A new UC Davis study shows how the brain reconfigures its connections to minimize distractions and take best advantage of our knowledge of situations. “In order to behave efficiently,…
From the Hebrew University of Jerusalem press release, via EurekAlert!: What distinguishes information processing with conscious awareness from processing occurring without awareness? And, is there any role for conscious awareness in information processing, or is…