This figure shows eight different real faces that were presented to a monkey, together with reconstructions made by analyzing electrical activity from 205 neurons recorded while the monkey was viewing the faces.
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Painted turtle eggs were brought from a hatchery in Louisiana, candled to ensure embryo viability and then incubated at male-permissive temperatures in a bed of vermiculite. Those exposed to BPA developed deformities to testes that held female characteristics.
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Humans can detect about one trillion different odors and have just as good a sense of smell as animals, suggests a new study.
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When it comes to our sense of smell, we have been led to...
The study found no evidence of the commonly held belief that women can recognize faces more accurately than men.
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Despite conventional wisdom that suggests women are better than men at facial recognition, Penn State psychologists found no difference...
How does our language affect our perception of time?
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Language has such a powerful effect, it can influence the way in which we experience time, according to a new study.
Professor Panos Athanasopoulos, a linguist from Lancaster...
With new research, the modest personality trait of 'intellectual humility' finally gets its moment in the spotlight. Credit: Jonathan Fuller
"Intellectual humility" has been something of a wallflower among personality traits, receiving far less scholarly attention than such brash qualities...
Milgram experiment tests people's willingness to deliverer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an experimenter.Image Credit:Flickr/Ape Lad
The title is direct, "Would you deliver an electric shock in 2015?" and the answer, according to the results of this...
Customers rarely post on a brand's page on their own and typically only see a fraction of a brand's Facebook content unless they are targeted with paid advertising. Image Credit: Flickr/Global Panorama
Social media managers who think that simply building...
A new research has found that people appear to be better than chance at correctly matching people's names to their faces, and it may have something to do with cultural stereotypes we attach to names. Image credit: Flickr/Peter Miller
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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...
Emotions are not innately programmed into our brains, but, in fact, are cognitive states resulting from the gathering of information, New York University Professor Joseph LeDoux and Richard Brown, a professor at the City University of New York, conclude...
