Psychology
- New information on brain areas linked to tactile sense and metacognitive ability (22 Aug 2018)
- Machine learning helps to predict the treatment outcomes of schizophrenia: Building better tools for diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders (14 Jul 2018)
- Scientists discover how brain signals travel to drive language performance: Their results pave the way for the treatment of aphasia and other language disorders (01 Jul 2018)
- Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy (30 Jun 2018)
- DARPA's New Brain Device Increases Learning Speed by 40% (27 Oct 2017)
- Self-esteem mapped in the human brain (25 Oct 2017)
- Brain region that motivates behavior change discovered (25 Oct 2017)
- MIT neuroscientists build case for new theory of memory formation (24 Oct 2017)
- Brain patterns underlying mothers' responses to infant cries: Behaviors and brain activity consistent between mothers from different countries (24 Oct 2017)
- Scientists pinpoint jealousy in the monogamous mind: The first neurobiology study of jealousy in a monogamous primate species sheds light on the emotion that keeps couples together -- but also tears t (20 Oct 2017)
- What Is Synesthesia? (18 Oct 2017)
- Brain waves reflect different types of learning (13 Oct 2017)
- Virtual humans work better than current ways to identify post-traumatic stress in soldiers: Computer-generated interviewers combine anonymity with social rapport to help troops open up about mental he (12 Oct 2017)
- Human brain recalls visual features in reverse order than it detects them: Study challenges traditional hierarchy of brain decoding; offers insight into how the brain makes perceptual judgements (10 Oct 2017)
- Scientists discover brain area which can be targeted for treatment in patients with schizophrenia who 'hear voices' (08 Oct 2017)
- Studying bumblebees to learn more about human intelligence and memory (05 Oct 2017)
- Tiny cavefish may help humans evolve to require very little sleep (22 Mar 2017)
- Linguists explore the evolution of color in new study (19 Mar 2017)
- Autism and human evolutionary success (19 Mar 2017)
- Large human brain evolved as a result of 'sizing each other up' (22 Aug 2016)
- How the brain encodes time and place: Neuroscientists identify a brain circuit that is critical for forming episodic memories (25 Jul 2016)
- Decision-making involves a little known brain region in the thalamus (25 Jul 2016)
- Adolescent brain may be especially sensitive to new memories, social stress, and drug use (25 Jul 2016)
- Humans perceive time somewhere in between reality and our expectations (22 Jul 2016)
- The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma (24 Jun 2016)
- Study validates monkey model of visual perception (14 Jun 2016)
- How the mind sharpens the senses (14 Jun 2016)
- Bilingualism and the brain: How language shapes our ability to process information (31 May 2016)
- 'Memory region' of brain also involved in conflict resolution: Hippocampus is involved in quick, successful decisions (28 May 2016)
- Research examines relationship between autism and creativity: New research has found that people with high levels of autistic traits are more likely to produce unusually creative ideas (27 May 2016)
- Rapid eye movements in sleep reset dream 'snapshots': Researchers find eye movements during REM sleep reflect brain activity patterns associated with new images (24 May 2016)
- This is your brain on communication (12 May 2016)
- Emotional brains 'physically different' from rational ones (09 May 2016)
- How the brain learns to distinguish between what is important and what is not (08 May 2016)
- Scientists gain first glimpse of new concepts developing in the brain (07 May 2016)
- Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder may share genetic roots with creativity (07 May 2016)
- Hippocampus: In search of memory storage (07 May 2016)
- Epicenter of brain's predictive ability pinpointed by scientists (07 May 2016)
- Nietzsche on Dreams as an Evolutionary Time Machine for the Human Brain (21 Apr 2016)
- Heightened scents: Do ambient fragrances make consumers purchase more? (12 Apr 2016)
- Psychotropic drug prescriptions: Therapeutic advances or fads? (11 Apr 2016)
- Bilingual brains better equipped to process information (11 Apr 2016)
- Are leaders born or made? New study shows how leadership develops (26 Mar 2016)
- Pioneering Psychologist William James on Attention, Multitasking, and the Mental Habit That Sets Great Minds Apart (25 Mar 2016)
- The roots of human altruism (16 Mar 2016)
- Modelling how the brain makes complex decisions (05 Feb 2016)
- What types of video games improve brain function? (21 Dec 2015)
- 'Spectacular discovery' of how memories are formed and learning takes place (21 Dec 2015)
- Mathematically modeling the mind (21 Dec 2015)
- 'Machine teaching' holds the power to illuminate human learning (21 Dec 2015)
- How does my therapist rate? (21 Dec 2015)
- How brain architecture leads to abstract thought (21 Dec 2015)
- Expert system for early diagnosis of schizophrenia (21 Dec 2015)
- Intelligent neuroprostheses mimic natural motor control (09 Dec 2015)
- What Higher Consciousness Really Means, How We Attain It, and What It Does for the Human Spirit (23 Nov 2015)
- Chimpanzee intelligence determined by genes (03 Oct 2015)
- Chimpanzee personality linked to anatomy of brain structures (29 Sep 2015)
- Smarter than you think: Fish can remember where they were fed 12 days later (11 Jul 2014)
- Why More Left-Handed Men are Born in the Winter (06 Jul 2014)
- Watching individual neurons respond to magnetic therapy (30 Jun 2014)
- The link between weed and schizophrenia is way more complicated than we thought (24 Jun 2014)
- Keep your Distance: Why Humans Learned to Fear What's Approaching (24 Jun 2014)
- Play an Instrument? Musical Training Improves Brain Function (22 Jun 2014)