Brain

11/06/2015 - 11:51

Spiridonov, a 30-year-old sufferer of Werdnig-Hoffman disease, has publicly volunteered to be first patient, saying he is aware of the... →

04/06/2015 - 15:45

What is now becoming clear is that some of our eye movements may actually reveal our thought process. Research published last year shows... →

24/05/2015 - 14:01

What can be done? Sternberg and others are now campaigning for a new kind of education that teaches people how to think more effectively,... →

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... →

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