This visual shows the relationship between gender-linked language topics and characteristics of warmth and assertiveness. Blue-shaded points are topics most linked with men. Orange-shaded points are topics most linked with women.Credit: Images courtesy of PLOS ONE
In a computational analysis...
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Taking the stairs is normally associated with keeping your body strong and healthy. But new research shows that it improves your brain's health too -- and that education also has a positive effect.
In a study recently...
Deep sleep is critical for memory consolidation. But beginning in middle age, deep sleep decreases substantially, which scientists believe contributes to memory loss in aging.Image Credit:Flickr/Danny Howard
Gentle sound stimulation -- such as the rush of a waterfall -- synchronized...
A new generation of brain scanner, that can be worn like a helmet allowing patients to move naturally whilst being scanned, has been developed by researchers at the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre, University of Nottingham and the Wellcome...
A piece of art created by a study participant using both markers and modeling clay. They said the experience was "therapeutic, relaxing thoughtful."Credit: Courtesy of Girija Kaimal
Whether you're Van Gogh or a stick-figure sketcher, a new Drexel University...
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward system, an archipelago of interconnected brain clusters crucial to promoting behavior...
The more time teenagers spend splitting their attention between various devices such as their phones, video games or TV, the lower their test scores in math and English tend to be. More time spent multitasking between different types of...
A new study by a Florida State University researcher shows that both a lack of stimulation in the workplace and a dirty working environment can have a long-term cognitive effect on employees.
"Psychologists say that the brain is a muscle,...
Few things can delight an adult more easily than the uninhibited, effervescent laughter of a baby. Yet baby laughter, a new study shows, differs from adult laughter in a key way: Babies laugh as they both exhale and inhale,...
Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) can alter our language processing, allowing for faster comprehension of meaningful word combinations, according to new research.
How the human brain processes the words we hear and constructs complex concepts is still somewhat of a...
Scientists have identified part of our brain that helps us learn to be good to other people.
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Scientists from Oxford University and UCL have identified part of our brain that helps us learn to be good...
