Milgram experiment tests people's willingness to deliverer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an experimenter.Image Credit:Flickr/Ape Lad
The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this...
Swearing is often inappropriate but it can also be evidence that someone is telling you their honest opinion. Just as they aren't filtering their language to be more palatable, they're also not filtering their views. Image Credit: Flickr/thinkpublic
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High-tech scans of the resting human brain can provide a new way to define and interpret the brain's actual mental capacity, new research suggests.
In a report published in the journal PLOS ONE online Feb. 12, NYU School of Medicine researchers used...
The brain of Gnathonemus petersii is larger in proportion to its body than a human's. To keep up with the energy demands of its big brain, it has evolved a Schnauzenorgan, a chin appendage covered with electroreceptors that helps...
A team of sleep researchers at the University of California, Riverside, led by psychology professor Sara C. Mednick, has found that the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible for control of bodily functions not consciously directed (such as breathing,...
Panoramic Sunset.Credit: © Salvatore D'Oro / Flickr
When asked to visualize your childhood home, you can probably picture not only the house you lived in, but also the buildings next door and across the street. MIT neuroscientists have now identified...
With woodpeckers, the answer's in the question--true to their name, they peck wood. And when they do, they peck hard--with each peck, the bird undergoes a force of 1,200 to 1,400 g's. By comparison, a measly force of 60-100...
The areas that contributed to vision were more active under LSD, which was linked to hallucinations. Image Credit: IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
Researchers from Imperial College London, working with the Beckley Foundation, have for the first time visualised the effects of...
Johns Hopkins University cognitive psychologists are the first to link human's long-term visual memory with how things move.Image Credit:Flickr/amy leonard
As Superman flies over the city, people on the ground famously suppose they see a bird, then a plane, and...
Low levels of the stress hormone cortisol are linked to obesity, high levels of fat in the blood and metabolic syndrome among patients with recurrent depressions or bipolar disorder. This according to a study at Umeå University in Sweden...
Researcher shows the child images of his brain just taken on the MRI machine. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 6, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Gomez at...
