The older we get, the more difficult it becomes to put the world around us in order. Yet, our brain develops remarkable strategies to slow down the effects of aging.
In order to process the information that we receive every...
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...
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...
A UC Santa Barbara researcher studying how the brain uses perception of the environment to guide action has a new understanding of the neural circuits responsible for transforming sensation into movement.
"Mapping perception to a future action seems simple," UCSB...
Michigan State University psychology professor Zach Hambrick, left, and graduate student Alexander Burgoyne discuss their findings that chess skill is related to intelligence.Credit: Michigan State University
Intelligence -- and not just relentless practice -- plays a significant role in determining...
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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...
This is a reconstruction of a pair of synaptically connected CA3 pyramidal neurons. Inset shows a light-micrograph of the single synaptic contact that forms the connection.Credit: Copyright by IST Austria, 2016
The hippocampal CA3 region plays a key role in...
Panoramic Sunset.Credit: © Salvatore D'Oro / Flickr
When asked to visualize your childhood home, you can probably picture not only the house you lived in, but also the buildings next door and across the street. MIT neuroscientists have now identified...
Negative or positive feelings about faces are related to patterns of activity in the brain's cingulate cortex, according to a new study. Researchers were able to use that insight to alter people's reaction to faces they saw.Credit: © Lisa...
Picture a little boy imitating his father shaving in the mirror or a little girl wobbling proudly in her mother's high heels.
From infancy, we learn by watching other people, then use those memories to help us predict outcomes and...
Stanford University School of Medicine scientists have identified a brain circuit that's indispensable to the sleep-wake cycle. This same circuit is also a key component of the reward system, an archipelago of interconnected brain clusters crucial to promoting behavior...
