Neuroscience
Show your fingers to a neuroscientist
By comparing your index and ring fingers, a neuroscientist can tell if you are likely to be anxious, or if you are likely to be a good athlete.
Oct 12, 2016
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News tagged with fingers
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Treating Dupuytren's contracture without surgery
Dupuytren's contracture is a disorder that can cause the fingers to curl in, primarily the ring and small fingers.
Oct 20, 2022
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Neuroscience
Hearing metaphors activates brain regions involved in sensory experience
When a friend tells you she had a rough day, do you feel sandpaper under your fingers? The brain may be replaying sensory experiences to help understand common metaphors, new research suggests.
Feb 3, 2012
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Neural network learns to differentiate between healthy and inflamed bones using finger joints
There are many different types of arthritis, and diagnosing the exact type of inflammatory disease that is affecting a patient's joints is not always easy. In an interdisciplinary research project conducted at Friedrich–Alexander ...
May 3, 2022
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Other
Finger ratio points to penile length
The ratio between the second and fourth digits is linked to stretched penile length according to a study published online this week in Asian Journal of Andrology. This finding suggests that digit ratio can predict adult penile ...
Jul 5, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Experiment shows thoughts influence tactile perception
If we sincerely believe that our index finger is five times bigger than it really is, our sense of touch improves. Researchers at Ruhr University Bochum demonstrated that this is the case in an experiment in which the participants ...
May 11, 2023
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Neuroscience
Six fingers per hand
Polydactyly is the extraordinary condition of someone being born with more than five fingers or toes. In a case study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the University of Freiburg, Imperial College London, ...
Jun 3, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study finds link between relative lengths of index and ring fingers in men and behaviour towards women
Maybe you should take a good look at your partner's fingers before putting a ring on one. Men with short index fingers and long ring fingers are on average nicer towards women, and this unexpected phenomenon stems from the ...
Feb 18, 2015
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Medical research
Brain stimulation improves motor skill learning at older age
Even though we don't think about it, every movement we make in our daily life essentially consists of a sequence of smaller actions in a specific order. The only time we realize this is when we have to learn a new motor skill, ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
New research aims to help improve uptake of hepatitis C testing
New research published in Scientific Reports shows persisting fears about HIV infection may impact testing uptake for the hepatitis C Virus (HCV).
Nov 14, 2018
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