Psychology & Psychiatry
What you know can affect how you see
Objects—everything from cars, birds and faces to letters of the alphabet—look significantly different to people familiar with them, a new study suggests.
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Psychology & Psychiatry
What should be the role of computer games in education?
Game advocates are calling for a sweeping transformation of conventional education to replace traditional curricula with game-based instruction. But what do researchers have to say about this idea and what is the role of ...
Jan 12, 2016
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Computer assisted CBT provides little or no benefits for depression
Researchers at the University of York have revealed computerised cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) is likely to be ineffective in the treatment of depression.
Nov 11, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Being moody may help us adapt to change
It's long been known that mood biases our judgments and perceptions, but this effect has usually been regarded as irrational or disadvantageous. A new theory published November 3 in Trends in Cognitive Sciences argues that ...
Nov 3, 2015
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Health
What blocks pro-vaccine beliefs?
Despite rhetoric that pits "anti-vaxxers" versus "pro-vaxxers," most new parents probably qualify as vaccine-neutral—that is, they passively accept rather than actively demand vaccination. Unless there is an active threat ...
Oct 29, 2015
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Predicting change in the Alzheimer's brain
MIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic, and clinical data to help predict the effects of disease on brain anatomy.
Oct 6, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Odds of longevity for summer romances
Sun, sand, surf and a smile across a crowded beach might spark a summer romance, but once the season passes, will the glow endure?
Aug 5, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Want to boost your toddler's development? Put a toy chicken on your head!
Parents who joke and pretend with their children are teaching them important life skills, research by the University of Sheffield has revealed.
Aug 3, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
At what age does hard work add a shine to lousy prizes?
Putting in a lot of effort to earn a reward can make unappealing prizes more attractive to kindergartners, but not to preschoolers, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association ...
Jul 27, 2015
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Neuroscience
A new wrinkle: Geometry of brain's outer surface correlates with genetic heritage
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and the School of Medicine have found that the three-dimensional shape of the cerebral cortex - the wrinkled outer layer of the brain controlling many functions of thinking ...
Jul 9, 2015
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