We make snap judgments of others based not only on their facial appearance, but also on our pre-existing beliefs about how others' personalities work, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers.
Its work, reported in the journal...
In order to learn about the world, an animal needs to do more than just pay attention to its surroundings. It also needs to learn which sights, sounds and sensations in its environment are the most important and monitor...
Soccer players who head the ball a lot are three times more likely to have concussion symptoms than players who don't head the ball often, according to a new study published in the February 1, 2017, online issue of...
Data from the first 5,000 UK Biobank participants taking part in the world’s largest health imaging study has been released for health researchers worldwide to use in their own research.
Meanwhile, early results from analysing brain imaging data alongside thousands...
Volume rendered Brain SPECT perfusion maps. The results are of a patient in the treated group suffering from left hemiparesis due to ischemic stroke that occurred 26 months prior to inclusion in the study. The brain perfusion maps (upper...
Neuroscientists from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Rochester have identified a specific brain signal associated with the conversion of speech into understanding. The signal is present when the listener has understood what they have heard, but it...
Large human genetics study finds loneliness is a heritable trait associated with neuroticism and depressive symptoms, but no one gene is responsible.
Loneliness is linked to poor physical and mental health, and is an even more accurate predictor of early...
Single microglia cell in the brain. DNA in the cell body is labeled in blue, and in red and green are different proteins expressed only by microglia which show the elaborate processes of these cells. Credit: MUHC
A type of...
Skydivers provided the smell of fear for investigating how autistic men react to odors. (Stock image)
Credit: © Joggie Botma / Fotolia
Autism typically involves the inability to read social cues. We most often associate this with visual difficulty in interpreting...
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,...
This is an image of a new technique to grow any target shape from any starting shape is demonstrated by "growing" the face of the father of quantum physics, Max Planck, from a flat disk.
Credit: Harvard SEAS
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