From the University College London press release: A new UCL and University of Nottingham study has found that most neurons in the brain’s auditory cortex detect where a sound is… Read more »
From the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München press release: In the mammalian auditory system, sound waves impinging on the tympanic membrane of the ear are transduced into electrical signals by sensory hair cells and… Read more »
From the McMaster University press release: The visual cortex, the human brain’s vision-processing centre that was previously thought to mature and stabilize in the first few years of life, actually… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release: When you look at photos of faces, your brain is able to instantly identify the ones that you know–whether they’re your mother or your… Read more »
From the Kyoto University press release: Perhaps we only see what we’ve learned to see. In a recent multinational study in the journal Cognitive Science, a research team led by Kyoto… Read more »
From the Radboud University press release: For a long time, researchers thought of the visual cortex as a brain area that determines what you perceive based on information coming from… Read more »
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 »
From the Frontiers press release: Attractiveness isn’t just a matter of good looks, but also the right voice and scent, highlights a mini review in Frontiers in Psychology. “Recently, most… Read more »
From the Bocconi University press release: The things we touch while shopping can affect what we buy, according to studies by Bocconi Department of Marketing’s Zachary Estes and University of… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release: Does the experience of beauty require a person to think? And can sensuous pleasures, like eating or sex, be beautiful? Such questions have long… Read more »
