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18/08/2015 - 20:03

The clock is specially designed to allow participants to discern sub-second changes. This clock has a single dot, which travels around the... →

14/08/2015 - 14:59

Addyman, of Birkbeck, University of London, is out to change that. He believes we can use laughter to get at exactly how infants understand... →

10/08/2015 - 11:31

The clock is specially designed to allow participants to discern sub-second changes. This clock has a single dot, which travels around the... →

11/07/2015 - 20:29

It might be that Rousseau is an extreme case, but suffice it to say, there is no end to the hypocrisy of people who tell other people how... →

20/06/2015 - 13:54

The competition’s task is superficially simple, says Rosalind Potts at UCL. “We wanted to know if you had an hour to study a list of 80... →

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... →

22/04/2015 - 14:09

How is it that these peoples’ noodles put the average brain's memory to shame? And what do the abilities of pi reciters and savants say... →

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... →

04/02/2015 - 14:16

Forgotten food The same is true of the food they eat. One of the key studies involved a former musician and a former banker, both of whom... →

21/01/2015 - 13:02

Bored to death Boredom is such a large part of day-to-day existence that it is somewhat surprising the word only entered the language with... →

17/09/2014 - 12:15

It was only in 2004 that two psychologists – Russell Hill and Robert Barton at the University of Durham – began to wonder whether humans... →

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