Researcher shows the child images of his brain just taken on the MRI machine. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 6, 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Gomez at...
A team of neuroscientists has found that people are biased toward hearing and producing rhythms composed of simple integer ratios — for example, a series of four beats separated by equal time intervals.Image: MIT News
Study finds the brain is...
A study of over 6.5 million Ontario residents raises public health concerns about the impact of air pollution and noise. Credit: Public Health Ontario and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences
Dementia is more common in people who live within...
Using the fMRI data, the researchers found that while listening to music, specific musical anhedonics presented a reduction in the activity of the Nucleus Accumbens, a key subcortical structure of the reward network. Image Credit: Flickr/Machrouh Med Sami
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Escalating rungs of social support.Credit: Penn Medicine
Leveraging existing relationships with friends and family may be a more effective way to improve patients' health and encourage new healthy habits and behaviors than increasing interactions with physicians or other clinicians. In...
The game used in the experiments, modified to monitor time and mistakes.Credit: Image courtesy of Imperial College London
Mozart may enhance a man's performance in board games -- while AC/DC may hinder their chances, according to new research.
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The rhythm of breathing through the nose sparks electrical activity in the human brain that enhances emotional judgments and memory recall, explains Christina Zelano, assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.Image courtesy of Northwestern University
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This is a pyramidal neuron.Credit: Chattarji laboratory
Mrs. M would never forget that day. She was walking along a busy road next to the vegetable market when two goons zipped past on a bike. One man's hand shot out and...
Have you ever tried to solve a complicated maths problem by using your hands, or shaped a piece of clay without planning it out in your head first? Understanding how we think and make decisions by interacting with the...
Older people who help and support others live longer, a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/Michael Wacker Follow
Older people who help and support others live longer. These are the findings of a study published in the journal Evolution and...
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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...
