From the Rutgers University press release: People who believe more strongly that depression is biologically caused also tend to think it is more severe and long lasting, compared to those who see less of a…
From the University of Connecticut press release: Gesturing with the hands while speaking is a common human behavior, but no one knows why we do it. Now, a group of UConn researchers reports in the…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: A popular theory in neuroscience called predictive coding proposes that the brain produces all the time expectations that are compared with incoming information. Errors arising from differences between actual…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: Anyone who’s ever tried to find something in a hurry knows how helpful it is to think about the lost item’s color, size and shape. But surprisingly, traits…
From the Florida Atlantic University press release: With children currently cooped up at home with limited access to their friends, a new study shows just how important it is to have fun and what that…
From the Goethe University Frankfurt press release: We learned it as children: to cross the street in exemplary fashion, we must first look to the left, then to the right, and finally once more to…
From the University of California – Santa Barbara press release: Have you ever noticed how a bite of warm cherry pie fills your mouth with sweetness, but that same slice right out of the refrigerator…
From the UC Davis press release: Industries often position products to tout the benefits of one category over another — such as the higher-quality, traditional ingredients of a microbrew over mass-produced brewery beer. Researchers suggest…
From the Ohio State University press release: There’s a price to pay when you get your news and political information from the same place you find funny memes and cat pictures, new research suggests. The…
From the Frontiers press release: Are we the best at judging our own attractiveness? New research out in Frontiers in Robotics and AI shows that we might not be after all. Researchers from the Experimental Virtual Environments…