To make sense of a visual scene, it's important to be able to pick out any figures or objects from the background. In a study published recently in Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, researchers from Japan have expanded on ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Serial dependence is a bias affecting perceptual experience, in which what you currently perceive tends to be biased toward what you have perceived immediately before. This phenomenon has been observed in tasks using different ...
Feb 16, 2023
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Researchers from the Max Delbrück Center have found a region of the brain that is responsible for our perception of temperature when we touch things. The paper, which appears in Nature, reports the discovery of a "thermal ...
Feb 14, 2023
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A research team led by Prof. Xue Tian from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) revealed the neural mechanism of photoreception suppressing thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue (BAT), thereby reducing ...
Feb 6, 2023
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In the news or on social media, we hear the term "bipolar disorder" a lot.
Feb 6, 2023
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Scientists have shown for the first time that briefly tuning into a person's individual brainwave cycle before they perform a learning task dramatically boosts the speed at which cognitive skills improve.
Jan 31, 2023
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Europe has gone from thinking music could stop plagues 400 years ago to realizing it can help prevent cardiovascular disease today.
Jan 31, 2023
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As Toronto experiences a particularly gloomy January, many may be wondering what they can do to give their mental wellness a boost.
Jan 25, 2023
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First-degree relatives (FDRs) of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have a high perceived risk for developing RA, according to a study published online Dec. 5 in RMD Open.
Jan 23, 2023
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The COVID-19 pandemic has been perceived in the national media as a largely partisan issue in the United States, with Democrats being portrayed as more concerned about the severity of the pandemic than Republicans. However, ...
Jan 11, 2023
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