Brain

22/02/2015 - 14:00

A recent experiment by a team from Israel scores points against this position. Ran Hassin and colleagues used a neat visual trick called... →

17/02/2015 - 14:44

For the first half of the twentieth century, researchers actually thought that bilingualism put a child at a disadvantage, something that... →

25/01/2015 - 13:48

In a study published in 2008, the University of California’s Sara Mednick – author of Take a Nap! Change Your Life – and her colleagues... →

17/01/2015 - 13:46

This case points to a sad fact about brain science. We don't often shout about it, but there are large gaps in even our basic understanding... →

10/12/2014 - 13:58

In 2007, research conducted at Newcastle University in the UK asked adults for their favourite colour. Did most of the women choose pink,... →

01/12/2014 - 17:39

Dogs and Humans Are Hardwired to Listen The researchers observed general biases in the dogs' responses to particular aspects of human... →

12/11/2014 - 14:19

Now there’s even more evidence that the neuro-revolution is on hold. Cliodhna O’Connor and Helene Joffe at UCL in London have just... →

09/11/2014 - 18:16

Generating a “ghost” The researchers first analyzed the brains of 12 patients with neurological disorders – mostly epilepsy – who have... →

13/10/2014 - 11:18

Many speed-reading methods involve making sure that new words are always in just the right place for the fovea to recognise. The people... →

08/09/2014 - 12:31

Frozen in fear Edward Meloni and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston trained mice to be afraid of a sound by placing them in... →

25/08/2014 - 15:52

At the same time, chaos has its advantages. On a behavioral level, the arms race between predator and prey has wired erratic strategies... →

15/08/2014 - 12:00

These are quite abstract concepts, though. There is a large gap, a grey area in between these concepts and our knowledge of how the brain... →

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