You followed the directions, but still no restaurant in sight; How far are you willing to drive? It depends on your initial confidence about the directions. We experience confidence as a feeling, but behind it are objective statistical calculations...
Scripps Florida Scientists Shed New Light on the Role of Calcium in Learning and Memory.Credit: Flickr/ariesandrea
While calcium's importance for our bones and teeth is well known, its role in neurons -- in particular, its effects on processes such as...
Pathways that exist before kids learn to read may determine development of brain’s word recognition area.
Neuroscientists have long wondered why the brain has a region exclusively dedicated to reading — a skill that is unique to humans and only...
Women suffer from a higher incidence of chronic and inflammatory pain conditions such as fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, says a new study.Image credit: Flickr/Britt-knee
A female brain's resident immune cells are more active in regions involved in pain processing relative to...
A team of researchers has developed the first scalable method to identify different subtypes of neurons in the human brain. The research lays the groundwork for "mapping" the gene activity in the human brain and could help provide a...
New, functional brain cells replace those destroyed by stroke in animals. Here, cells are in various stages of maturity: immature cells are green, more mature cells are red and fully mature cells are orange. Credit: University of California, Los...
Skydivers provided the smell of fear for investigating how autistic men react to odors. (Stock image)
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Autism typically involves the inability to read social cues. We most often associate this with visual difficulty in interpreting...
Feeling peckish? Eating may be taken for granted as a fundamental part of life, but getting it wrong can have serious consequences for our health.
Over time, too little food can leave us with stunted growth and an inability to...
Even if you haven't ridden your bike in years, you probably remember how to do so without giving it much thought. If you're a skilled piano player, odds are you can easily sit down and play a song you've...
This density map of the cerebral cortex of a mouse shows which neurons get activated when the animal explores of a new environment. The lit up region at the center (white and yellow) represents neurons associated with the mouse's...
Our brain tricks us into believing the low-hanging fruit really is the ripest, a new study says.Image credit:Flickr/Victoria Price
The amount of effort required to do something influences what we think we see, finds a new UCL study suggesting we're...
