Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal
imagine spending a Weekend afternoons at the art museum with friends: nodding with arms crossed, desperately searching for insightful ...
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Almost All Research on the Mind Is in English. That’s a Problem | WIRED
world Brain research has a secret flaw. For decades, research on how the brain works has been conducted primarily ...
Pure Oxygen Speeds Up Learning. Can It Help Stroke Survivors Recover?
as a physical Shanghai-based therapist Wang is working with stroke survivors whose brains have been damaged by lack of ...
Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head—and How to Stop Them
Music that is simple, repetitive, and easy to sing (or hum) is most likely to get stuck. Think Miley ...
To Understand the Human Brain, Give an Octopus MDMA
Gideon Litchfield: I'm sure, if you haven't already, you will. No, not at all, I think we'll get a ...
Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones
The tiny foragers are also "excellent learners," Crossley said, remembering things after a single encounter. In the new study, ...
Realistic Graphics Can Open Real Dialogue Around Game Violence
if you have spent play anytime dead island 2, you've most likely noticed the game's progressive damage system. What ...
One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost
They then injected a single low dose of klotho under the skin of each monkey, raising protein levels to ...
Meet the Psychedelic Boom’s First Responders
In its first year, Fireside trained more than 100 volunteers and conducted about 2,550 conversations with callers, including Greenberg. ...
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed
Human olfactory receptors belong to a large family of proteins known as G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). These proteins sit ...
