Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have explored the regions of the brain where concrete and abstract concepts materialize. A new study now explores if people who grow up in different cultures and speak different languages ...
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Researchers led by Ali Mahmoodi at the University of Freiburg in Germany have characterized brain activity that occurs when we are socially influenced to change our minds. Publishing in PLOS Biology on March 3rd, the study ...
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As we have experienced during the COVID pandemic, loneliness, or perceived social isolation, is a major stress for social animals and increases the risk of mental and physical health issues such as depression, substance abuse, ...
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Memories of past events and experiences are what define us as who we are, and yet the ability to form these episodic memories declines with age, certain dementias, and brain injury. However, a study publishing in the open ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Odors evoke powerful memories, an experience enshrined in literature by Marcel Proust and his beloved madeleine.
Mar 8, 2021
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How can the partisan divide be bridged when conservatives and liberals consume the same political content, yet interpret it through their own biased lens?
Oct 20, 2020
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At Carnegie Mellon University, Biomedical Engineering's Matthew Smith and Byron Yu, along with former Ph.D. student Ben Cowley (Ph.D., School of Computer Science '18), have studied the neural basis through which internal ...
Aug 17, 2020
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Neuroscientists at UC San Francisco have discovered how the listening brain scans speech to break it down into syllables. The findings provide for the first time a neural basis for the fundamental atoms of language and insights ...
Nov 20, 2019
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Advances in the study of human social behavior may lead to a better understanding of normal processes such as empathy and theory of mind, as well as dysregulated conditions including autism spectrum disorder. The findings ...
Oct 22, 2019
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A team of researchers from the University of California and Stanford University has found that the tendency to see people from different racial groups as interchangeable has a neuronal basis. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
