One of the 59 volunteers in a distracted driving study by the University of Houston and Texas A&M Transportation Institute sits in a high-fidelity driving simulator.Credit: Malcolm Dcosta
While much has been made about the dangers of texting and driving,...
Image is a Z-statistic map threshold at voxel-height probability of P<.001and cluster probability of P<.05 displayed over axial MNIT1 anatomic template. Significant clusters are located in the anterior cingulate cortex, bilateral inferior frontal, inferior parietal and medial temporal gyrl,...
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...
Running barefoot is better than running with shoes for your working memory, according to a new study published by researchers at the University of North Florida.
The experiment, designed by lead researcher Dr. Ross Alloway, undertaken with Dr. Tracy Alloway,...
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We use others' eyes - whether they're widened or narrowed - to infer emotional states, and the inferences we make align with the optical function of those expressions, according to new research published in Psychological...
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...
Rock your baby in sync with music and you may wonder how the experience affects her and her developing brain.
A new study by scientists at the University of Washington's Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) shows that a...
The brain acts much differently when we're outdoors compared to when we're inside the lab, a new study has found.
"It happens when we're doing normal, everyday activities, like riding a bike," explained Kyle Mathewson, a neuroscientist in UAlberta's Department...
Most adults can quickly and effortlessly recall as many as 100,000 regularly used words when prompted, but how the brain accomplishes this has long boggled scientists.
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When you look at a picture of a mug, the...
A new study by Brown University researchers shows that two different brain systems work cooperatively as people learn.
The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on the interplay of two very different modes of learning a...
What does drinking beer really do? A new study has shown that drinking beer affects the way we see specific emotions and allows us to see happy faces faster. It also has surprising effects on sexual perception. These results*...
