Psychology & Psychiatry
Turns out there's no 'type' in Type A personality
You know the type. Hard-driving, competitive, impatient. They call it Type A.
Nov 6, 2018
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News tagged with familiarity
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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Psychology & Psychiatry
How the brain recognizes familiar faces
There's nothing quite like the rush of recognition that comes from seeing a familiar face. But scientists have been hard-pressed to explain how we identify well-known faces—or how that process differs from the way we perceive ...
Aug 10, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Familiar faces look happier than unfamiliar ones
People tend to perceive faces they are familiar with as looking happier than unfamiliar faces, even when the faces objectively express the same emotion to the same degree, according to new research published in Psychological ...
Jun 20, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Tiny eye movements reveal if suspect is lying about recognition
Researchers may soon be able to tell whether a suspect is lying about recognising someone they know, according to a study from the University of Portsmouth.
Mar 24, 2017
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Neuroscience
Why we become more forgetful with age – and what you can do about it
How is it that we are able to remember some events in great detail whereas other memories seem to fade away over time? Our memory changes with age, so that we may have a memory slip on a trip to fetch something from the next ...
Dec 21, 2016
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Neuroscience
How your brain retrieves a memory when you sense something familiar
Several years after graduating, I visited my old university for the first time since leaving. I tried to use the familiar campus ATM, but the PIN I entered was not accepted. It took two failed attempts before I realised that ...
Jul 28, 2016
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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
'Learned' people easily may claim facts impossible to know
People who believe they know a little something about a topic – confident though they may be – commonly and easily claim knowledge that is impossible for them to have, say Cornell University researchers in a newly published ...
Jun 12, 2015
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