Human infants capable of advanced reasoning
(Medical Xpress) -- Recent research reported in PhysOrg showed that babies seem to be able to distinguish right from wrong even at the age of six months, and consistently choose helpful characters over unhe ...
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Jun 24, 2011 |
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Stress in the city: Brain activity and biology behind mood disorders of urban residents
Being born and raised in a major urban area is associated with greater lifetime risk for anxiety and mood disorders. Until now, the biology for these associations had not been described. A new international study, which involved ...
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Jun 22, 2011 |
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Why context matters in the long and short of words: Researchers improve 75-year-old language theory
(Medical Xpress) -- Do you ever wonder about the stuff that makes up words? Why is a word a word, what goes into forming it, what's its history or why is it long or short? Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute ...
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Memory training video games can increase brain power
(Medical Xpress) -- In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Susanne Jaeggi from the University of Michigan looked at the use of specialized video games have t ...
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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Your attention please: 'Rewarding' objects can't be ignored
The world is a dazzling array of people, objects, sounds, smells and events: far too much for us to fully experience at any moment. So our attention may automatically be snagged by something startling, such ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 07, 2011 |
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Expertise provides buffer against bias in making judgments
Gratuities, gifts, sponsorship, product price, free samples, favors all can influence judgment and decision-making. If a person is influenced in their choice of cereal, the result is a bit of income for a manufacturer. But ...
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Jun 06, 2011 |
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Study suggests 'hard to read' fonts may increase reading retention
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers from Indiana University and Princeton, in a paper published in Cognition, describe two experiments they conducted that appear to show reading retention improves when fonts ...
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Jun 01, 2011 |
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A brain training exercise that really does work
(Medical Xpress) -- Forget about working crossword puzzles and listening to Mozart. If you want to improve your ability to reason and solve new problems, just take a few minutes every day to do a maddening little exercise ...
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May 30, 2011 |
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Babies can perform sophisticated analyses of how the physical world should behave: study
Over the past two decades, scientists have shown that babies only a few months old have a solid grasp on basic rules of the physical world. They understand that objects can't wink in and out of existence, and that objects ...
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May 26, 2011 |
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New research overturns theory on how children learn their first words
New research by a team of University of Pennsylvania psychologists is helping to overturn the dominant theory of how children learn their first words, suggesting that it occurs more in moments of insight than gradually through ...
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May 23, 2011 |
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Gossip serves a useful purpose after all
(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers in the US have discovered that hearing gossip about a person literally changes the way you see them, and hearing negative information about people makes their faces stand out.
Psychology & Psychiatry
May 20, 2011 |
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Researchers identify DNA region linked to depression
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and King's College London have independently identified DNA on chromosome 3 that appears to be related to depression.
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May 16, 2011 |
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Scientists afflict computers with schizophrenia to better understand the human brain
Computer networks that can't forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas ...
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May 05, 2011 |
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Media multitasking is really multi-distracting
Multitaskers who think they can successfully divide their attention between the program on their television set and the information on their computer screen proved to be driven to distraction by the two devices, according ...
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May 02, 2011 |
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Spring babies face anorexia risk
(Medical Xpress) -- Anorexia nervosa is more common among people born in the spring, a new study led by Oxford University scientists has found.
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