From the UC Berkeley press release via EurekAlert!: Whether we’re listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new…
From the Michigan State University press release: Humans, when alone, see threats as closer than they actually are. But mix in people from a close group, and that misperception disappears. In other words, there’s safety…
From the St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: Brain researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute have discovered that we explore the world with our eyes in a different way than previously thought.…
From the Salk Institute press release via MedicalXpress: The irony of getting away to a remote place is you usually have to fight traffic to get there. After hours of dodging dangerous drivers, you finally…
From the KU Leuven press release via ScienceDaily: Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a picture with a reward, the reward by itself becomes enough to alter the activity in the monkeys’ visual cortex. This…
From the Gettysburg College press release by Kendra Martin via MedicalXpress: The contrasting nature of facial features is one of the signals that people unconsciously use to decipher how old someone looks, says Psychology Prof.…
From the Public Library of Science press release via ScienceDaily: Playing video games for an hour each day can improve subsequent performance on cognitive tasks that use similar mental processes to those involved in the…
From the University of Chicago Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: A region of the brain known to play a key role in visual and spatial processing has a parallel function: sorting visual information into…
From the Cell Press press release via EurekAlert!: Much to the chagrin of parents who think their kids should spend less time playing video games and more time studying, time spent playing action video games…
From the Universität Tübingen press release via MedicalXpress: Have you ever wondered whether it’s possible to look at two places at once? Because our eyes have a specialized central region with high visual acuity and…