Researchers have identified a single, universal facial expression that is interpreted across many cultures as the embodiment of negative emotion.
Mar 28, 2016
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A study led by the University of Southampton has found there is no difference in the time it takes people from different countries to read and process different languages.
Feb 1, 2016
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Researchers have long known that adults can flexibly find new ways to communicate, for example, using smoke signals or Morse code to communicate at a distance, but a new Northwestern University study is the first to show ...
Nov 2, 2015
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If you're a musician, this sounds too good to be true: University of Chicago psychologists have been able to train some adults to develop the prized musical ability of absolute pitch, and the training's effects last for months.
May 28, 2015
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Different languages can have subtly different effects on the way we think and perceive, a phenomenon known as linguistic relativity. In a new paper in the journal Cognition, researcher Monique Flecken from the Max Planck ...
May 27, 2015
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When it comes to rewards and punishments, which is more effective—the carrot or the stick?
May 6, 2015
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It is widely believed that people are bad at naming odors. This has led researchers to suggest smell representations are simply not accessible to the language centers of the brain. But is this really so? Psychologist Asifa ...
Apr 1, 2015
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If you were verbally given a list of random items at the grocery store to purchase, could you remember everything without writing it down?
Jan 26, 2015
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(Medical Xpress)—Ask someone to describe something they are looking at, and they will offer words that have evolved to describe seen objects, but ask them to describe odors, and they will almost always use comparative words ...
Children learn a great deal about the world from their own exploration, but they also rely on what adults tell them. Studies have shown that children can figure out when someone is lying to them, but cognitive scientists ...
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