Tag: information

New experiments support distinct roles for two brain pathways in processing information about objects

From the Society for Neuroscience press release: New experiments described in The Journal of Neuroscience support distinct roles for two brain pathways in processing information related to an object, with one carrying a… Read more »

Study suggests fast typists more likely to emerge as virtual team leaders

From the University of Iowa press release: A new study from the University of Iowa finds that to the fast typist go the leadership spoils. The study suggests that the fleet-fingered… Read more »

Strategic studying limits the costs of divided attention

From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Multitasking while studying may impair overall memory for the study material, but your ability to strategically identify and remember the most important information… Read more »

How our brains integrate online reviews into our own product preferences

From the University College London press release: UCL researchers have identified how the human brain integrates social information when a person decides how much they like something, by studying how user… Read more »

Humans rely more on ‘inferred’ visual objects than ‘real’ ones

From the eLife press release: Humans treat ‘inferred’ visual objects generated by the brain as more reliable than external images from the real world, according to new research published in… Read more »

Consumers see much greater risk than reward in online ads

From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Personalized ads now follow us around the web, their content drawn from tracking our online activity. The ad industry has suggested we’re… Read more »