From the Iowa State University press release via ScienceDaily: A series of studies conducted by an Iowa State University research team shows that it is possible to manipulate an existing memory simply by suggesting new…
From the American Institute of Physics press release via EurekAlert!: During command and control operations, military personnel are frequently exposed to extreme auditory overload – essentially bombarded by multiple messages coming from radio networks, loudspeakers,…
From the Newcastle University press release via ScienceDaily: Scientists at Newcastle University have shed new light on how the brain tunes in to relevant information. Publishing in Neuron, the team reveal the interplay of brain…
From the University of Copenhagen press release via ScienceDaily: Web tools and social media are our key sources of information when we make decisions as citizens and consumers. But these information technologies can mislead us…
From the University of Warwick press release: The more choices people have, the riskier the decisions they make, according to a new study which sheds light on how we behave when faced with large amounts…
From the University of Helsinki press release via HealthCanal: “Most people think if you are not an engineer you have nothing to say about technology“, regrets social scientist Suvi Silfverberg, “I think it’s quite the…
From the Georgia Health Sciences University press release via EurekAlert!: As we age, it just may be the ability to filter and eliminate old information – rather than take in the new stuff – that…
From the UC Berkeley press release: Our eyes may be our window to the world, but how do we make sense of the thousands of images that flood our retinas each day? Scientists at the…
From the Wellcome Trust press release via EurekAlert!: Researchers supported by the Wellcome Trust have discovered that we use a different part of our brain to learn about social hierarchies than we do to learn…
From the Radboud University Nijmegen via ScienceDaily: Alpha waves were long ignored, but gained interest of brain researchers recently. Electrical activity of groups of brain cells results in brain waves with different amplitudes. The so-called…