Neuroscience
Our ability to identify the source of pain varies across the body
"Where does it hurt?" is the first question asked to any person in pain.
Jun 6, 2014
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Neuroscience
Research sheds light on links between memory and smell
(Medical Xpress)—Scents and smells can form the basis of some of the most significant memories that humans form in their lives.
Mar 18, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Are you smarter than a 5-year-old? Preschoolers can do algebra (w/ Video)
Millions of high school and college algebra students are united in a shared agony over solving for x and y, and for those to whom the answers don't come easily, it gets worse: Most preschoolers and kindergarteners can do ...
Mar 6, 2014
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Neuroscience
No clowning around: Juggling study may shed light on how our senses help us run
(Medical Xpress)—Juggling may seem like mere entertainment, but a study led by Johns Hopkins engineers used this circus skill to gather critical clues about how vision and the sense of touch help control the way humans ...
Feb 11, 2014
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Health
Humans can use smell to detect levels of dietary fat
New research from the Monell Center reveals humans can use the sense of smell to detect dietary fat in food. As food smell almost always is detected before taste, the findings identify one of the first sensory qualities that ...
Jan 22, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
The unexpected power of baby math: Adults still think about numbers like kids
Children understand numbers differently than adults. For kids, one and two seem much further apart then 101 and 102, because two is twice as big as one, and 102 is just a little bigger than 101. It's only after years of schooling ...
Jan 22, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Extrasensory perception: Debunking the sixth sense
(Medical Xpress)—New research led by the University of Melbourne has helped debunk the common belief that a sixth sense, also known as extrasensory perception (ESP), exists.
Jan 14, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Babies' number sense could predict future math skills
(Medical Xpress)—Infants have a primitive number sense that allows them to recognize whether a group of objects has changed in size. Scientists have suspected a correlation between this innate number sense in infancy and ...
Health
Mobility limitation due to a lack of balance confidence
A fall and subsequent injury decreases a person's balance confidence and increases his or her fear of falling. People aged over 60 years who had sustained a hip fracture and had a lower sense of balance confidence, also experienced ...
Oct 10, 2013
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Medical research
What's that smell? New research sniffs out odor categories with math
Taste can be classified into five flavors that we sense, but how many odors can we smell? There are likely about 10 basic categories of odor, according to research published September 18th in the open access journal PLOS ...
Sep 18, 2013
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