Psychology & Psychiatry
Which is easier to remember, symbols or words?
Everyday symbols like &?!#@$ are highly memorable, according to new research.
Aug 22, 2023
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Neuroscience
Neuroscientists delineate social decision-making in the human brain
We make decisions based on not only our own learning experience, but also learning from others. But with the presence of other people's choices, how do we learn from them to better inform our own learning? Is social learning ...
Aug 20, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
When it comes to learning, what's better—the carrot or the stick?
Does the potential to win or lose money influence confidence in decisions? Does either of them help to learn more quickly? Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, in collaboration with the University ...
Apr 17, 2019
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Neuroscience
Simple reward-based learning suits adolescents best
Adolescents focus on rewards and are less able to learn to avoid punishment or consider the consequences of alternative actions, finds a new UCL-led study.The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, compared how adolescents ...
Jun 20, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Depicting as a method of communication
When we think of language, we usually think of words, phrases, and sentences—strings of abstract symbols. In research over the past 50 years, cognitive and social scientists have developed extensive accounts of how people ...
Mar 3, 2016
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