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15/05/2015 - 13:29
Split minds From a medical perspective, Jacobs’ memory loss is considered to be a case of dissociative amnesia. This means there is no...
03/04/2015 - 15:44
To get some answers, psychologists Joshua Hartshorne and Laura Germine tested 21,926 people aged 10 to 71 who had visited the website...
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...

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