"Children seem to interpret disjunction like conjunction," observes MIT Linguistics Professor Danny Fox. However, Fox adds, although "it has been claimed children are very different from adults in the interpretation of logical words," the study's larger implication is almost...
For a recent “positive computing” study by informatics researchers at UCI, subjects were asked to smile and snap a selfie with their smartphone every day for three weeks.Credit: Steve Zylius / UCI
Regularly snapping selfies with your smartphone and sharing...
A team of researchers has discovered that serotonin (5-HT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) act in opposite ways in males and females to influence aggression and dominance.Image Credit:Flickr/Kathryn
The brain regulates social behavior differently in males and females, according to a new...
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...
Repeat ketamine infusions decreased -- and for some, eliminated -- suicidal thoughts in outpatients with treatment-resistant depression. Credit: © ryan melaugh / Flickr
Repeat intravenous treatment with low doses of the anesthetic drug ketamine quickly reduced suicidal thoughts in a...
Rats roam around an arena (A) before tackling a maze memory task. A reward awaits them in the T-maze placed in the arena (B). While it sleeps, the rat consolidates the memory of where the reward was located (C)....
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...
Can't remember something? Try waiting until later in the day. Researchers identified a gene in mice that seems to influence memory recall at different times of day and tracked how it causes mice to be more forgetful just before...
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...
When the sleep-drive neurons turn on, it puts the fruit flies to sleep. And when the sleep-drive neurons are turned off in well-rested flies, the flies awaken.Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine
Studying fruit flies, whose sleep is remarkably similar to that...
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A new study by psychologists from the University of Liverpool and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) reveals that collaborating in a group to remember information is harmful.
The research, conducted by Dr Craig...
