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...
A new Carnegie Mellon University neuroimaging study reveals the mental stages people go through as they are solving challenging math problems.
Published in Psychological Science, researchers combined two analytical strategies to use functional MRI (fMRI) to identify patterns of brain...
Our sense of vision and smell alone are enough to make us aware that someone has a disease even before it breaks out. And not only aware – we also act upon the information and avoid sick people.
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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...
ASD is characterized by a wide range of symptoms that can vary in severity from person to person.
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A new study out in European Journal of Neuroscience could herald a new tool that helps physicians identify...
With only 1% difference, the human and chimpanzee protein-coding genomes are remarkably similar. Understanding the biological features that make us human is part of a fascinating and intensely debated line of research. Researchers at the SIB Swiss Institute of...
Our daily lives include hundreds of routine habits. Brushing our teeth, driving to work, or putting away the dishes are just a few of the tasks that our brains have automated to the point that we hardly need to...
Language learning very early on in life can be subconsciously retained even when no conscious knowledge of the early experience remains. The subconscious knowledge can then be tapped to speed up learning of the pronunciation of sounds of the...
Ask a dozen people about their greatest fears, and you'll likely get a dozen different responses. That, along with the complexity of the human brain, makes fear—and its close cousin, anxiety—difficult to study. For this reason, clinical anti-anxiety medicines...
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...
Liam Satchell with a participant.Credit: Image courtesy of University of Portsmouth
The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new exploratory study from the University of Portsmouth has found.
The researchers from the Department of Psychology...
