Positive emotions during learning linked to stronger memory
How do emotions influence memory?
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Mental Process: Emotions
Medical news and research articles
Emotion, not just action, helps brain define, divide events
In the 2001 film "Tortilla Soup," an argument between three sisters culminates in one smashing a plate on the kitchen floor.
Jun 17, 2025
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Emotions change our perception of time—as demonstrated on 'The Traitors'
In the UK version of the TV show "The Traitors," contestants were given five minutes to find as much gold as they could, put it into cages and hoist them before the time ran out. There was a catch though—they weren't given ...
Jan 27, 2025
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Measuring body language to trace emotions
Is it possible to decode how we feel from our movements? How can emotions be studied "from the outside" by using empirical methods? To answer these questions, a large international and interdisciplinary research team led ...
Jul 2, 2024
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The brain builds emotions regardless of the senses, neuroscientists find
How much do our emotions depend on our senses? Does our brain and body react in the same way when we hear a fearful scream, see an eerie shadow, or smell a sinister odor? And does hearing upbeat music or seeing a colorful ...
Mar 8, 2024
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Electric shock reveals that worms may have basic 'emotions'
Brain research is one of the most crucial fields in modern life sciences, and "emotion" is one of its major topics. Studying emotions in animals has long been considered challenging with limited research mostly focused on ...
Sep 26, 2023
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Study reveals that art has a powerful effect on people's bodies and emotions
A new study from the University of Turku and Aalto University in Finland published in the journal Cognition & Emotion reveals that art has a powerful effect on people's bodies and emotions.
Mar 27, 2023
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Study reveals small excerpts can accurately predict our musical tastes
We know whether or not we like a song after listening to it for only a few seconds, shows a study by a team of psychology researchers. Its findings, which offer new insights into cognitive processing, reveal music perception ...
Feb 9, 2023
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Joy at the café: Tweets reveal where in cities people express different emotions
An analysis of nearly 2 million Tweets made by people in London and San Francisco explores specific events and types of locations that are associated with different emotions. Panote Siriaraya of the Kyoto Institute of Technology, ...
Feb 1, 2023
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Study explores how emotions elicited by chewing gum affect cortical activity
Some neuroscience studies suggest that distinct human emotional states are associated with greater activity in different regions of the brain. For instance, while some parts of the brain have been associated with all emotional ...
