The amygdala is a tiny hub of emotions where in 2016 a team led by MIT neuroscientist Kay Tye found specific populations of neurons that assign good or bad feelings, or "valence," to experience. Learning to associate pleasure with...
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,...
Cats have a reputation for being aloof and independent. But a study of the way domestic cats respond to their caregivers suggests that their socio-cognitive abilities and the depth of their human attachments have been underestimated.
The findings reported in...
When we train the reaching for and grasping of objects, we also train our brain. In other words, this action brings about changes in the connections of a certain neuronal population in the red nucleus, a region of the...
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Android users are more honest than iPhone users say psychologists, in a study published this week which is the first to find a link between personality and smartphone type.
Four out of five UK adults now have...
Naong drinking.Credit: Tomas Persson
Without having tasted a specific new juice mix before, an orangutan in a Swedish zoo has enough sense to know whether it will taste nice or not based on how he recombined relevant memories from the...
The researchers used a sample of 700 trees to create one tree that summarized the relationships among the Pama-Nyungan languages.Credit: Image courtesy of Yale University
The naming of colors has long been a topic of interest in the study of...
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)....
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...
A study to be published in the July 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry(JAACAP) reports that adolescents in urban communities may have less aggressive behaviors if they live in neighborhoods with...
ETH researchers have revealed that Schwann cells in the peripheral nervous system largely produce their own fatty acids in order to create electrical insulation for nerve fibres. This process relies on an enzyme whose absence leads to defective insulation...
