Psychology & Psychiatry
Researchers point to digital gains in human recognition
Human beings are highly efficient at recognizing familiar faces, even from very poor quality images.
Dec 26, 2013
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Neuroscience
What's your chronotype? Knowing whether you're a night owl or an early bird could help performance
Timing is everything. For early risers and late-nighters alike, listening to your internal clock may be the key to success. From the classroom to the courtroom and beyond, people perform best on challenging tasks at a time ...
Nov 7, 2023
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Celebrating Mother's Day when your mom has Alzheimer's
Mother's Day can require some creative thinking when your mom has dementia.
May 12, 2023
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Should all aged-care residents with COVID-19 be moved to hospital? Probably, but there are drawbacks too
COVID-19 is continuing to devastate Victorian aged-care homes, with 1,435 active cases now linked to the sector, and at least 130 residents having died.
Aug 7, 2020
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Neuroscience
Learning to see friendly faces in different places
Meaningful social interactions train visual cortex neurons to recognize a familiar face in different visual locations, suggests new research published in eNeuro. The study demonstrates how the brain learns to perceive other ...
Oct 1, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Important details revealed in the search for the causes of face blindness
As part of a cooperation with the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Berlin and the University of Bamberg, researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have been studying a probably congenital dysfunction that ...
Dec 4, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New research finds a way to reverse children's racial stereotyping
New research by a University of Delaware psychological scientist and his collaborators across the globe has found a simple exercise that can undo the unconscious racial biases that young children have—biases that may begin ...
Aug 25, 2015
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Infants show greater unease towards computer-morphed faces when shown 'half-mother' images
When interacting with robots or animations with unnatural-looking faces, many people report a sense of unease. The face seems familiar yet alien, leaving the brain uncertain whether it is definitely human. To make robots ...
Oct 12, 2012
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Alzheimer's sufferers may function better with less visual clutter
Psychologists at the University of Toronto and the Georgia Institute of Technology – commonly known as Georgia Tech – have shown that an individual's inability to recognize once-familiar faces and objects may have as ...
Oct 11, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
I recognize you! But how did I do it?
Are you someone who easily recognises everyone you've ever met? Or maybe you struggle, even with familiar faces? It is already known that we are better at recognising faces from our own race but researchers have only recently ...
Jan 13, 2012
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