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Facial Features Are the Key to First Impressions
July 28, 2014 — A new study shows that it is possible to accurately predict first impressions using measurements of physical features in everyday images of faces, such as those found on social ... full story -
New Tools Help Neuroscientists Analyze 'Big Data'
July 27, 2014 — New technologies for monitoring brain activity are generating unprecedented quantities of information. That data may hold new insights into how the brain works -- but only if researchers can ... full story -
Why Do Men Prefer Nice Women? Responsiveness and Desire
July 25, 2014 — Does responsiveness increase sexual desire in the other person? Do men perceive responsive women as more attractive, and does the same hold true for women's perceptions of men? A recent study ... full story -
New Research Links Bad Diet to Loss of Smell
July 21, 2014 — Could stuffing yourself full of high-fat foods cause you to lose your sense of smell? A new study by neuroscientists says so, and it has researchers taking a closer look at how our diets could impact ... full story -
Children as Young as Three Recognize 'Cuteness' in Faces of People, Animals
July 21, 2014 — Children as young as three are able to recognize the same ‘cute’ infantile facial features in humans and animals which encourage caregiving behavior in adults, new research has shown. A study ... full story -
Vision Loss Associated With Work Status
July 17, 2014 — Vision loss is associated with a higher likelihood of not working, researchers report. Also, people who do not work have poorer physical and mental health, are less socially integrated and have lower ... full story -
Exercise, Relaxation Activities Positively Impact People With Social Anxiety Disorders
July 17, 2014 — New research has shed light on how exercise and relaxation activities like yoga can positively impact people with social anxiety disorders. The study found that exercise and relaxation activities ... full story -
Eye Movements Reveal Difference Between Love and Lust
July 17, 2014 — A new study suggests the difference between love and lust might be in the eyes. Specifically, where your date looks at you could indicate whether love or lust is in the cards. The new study found ... full story -
Measuring Nurture: Study Shows How 'Good Mothering' Hardwires Infant Brain
July 17, 2014 — By carefully watching nearly a hundred hours of video showing mother rats protecting, warming, and feeding their young pups, and then matching up what they saw to real-time electrical readings from ... full story -
Brain Pathways Linking Visual Function, Running Identified
July 16, 2014 — A brainstem circuit discovered in mice may help explain how active movement impacts the way the brain processes sensory information, researchers report. The researchers focused on the brain's ... full story -
Months Before Their First Words, Babies' Brains Rehearse Speech Mechanics
July 14, 2014 — New research in 7- and 11-month-old infants shows that speech sounds stimulate areas of the brain that coordinate and plan motor movements for speech. The study suggests that baby brains start laying ... full story -
Ultrasound Tracks Odor Representation in Brain
July 11, 2014 — A new ultrasound imaging technique has provided the first ever in vivo visualization of activity in the piriform cortex of rats during odor perception. This deep-seated brain structure plays an ... full story -
DARPA Taps Lawrence Livermore to Develop World's First Neural Device to Restore Memory
July 10, 2014 — The Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) up to $2.5 million to develop an implantable neural device ... full story -
Understanding Consciousness: Researchers Advocate for More Scientific Research on Consciousness
July 10, 2014 — Why does a relentless stream of subjective experiences normally fill your mind? Maybe that's just one of those mysteries that will always elude us. Yet, new research suggests that consciousness ... full story -
Working to Loosen the Grip of Severe Mental Illness
July 10, 2014 — The underlying brain architecture of a person at rest is basically the same as that of a person performing a variety of tasks, a researcher has found. This is important to the study of mental ... full story -
Teaching the Brain to Reduce Pain
July 10, 2014 — People can be conditioned to feel less pain when they hear a neutral sound, new research has found. This lends weight to the idea that we can learn to use mind-over-matter to beat pain. "We have ... full story -
Study Cracks How Brain Processes Emotions
July 9, 2014 — Although feelings are personal and subjective, the human brain turns them into a standard code that objectively represents emotions across different senses, situations and even people, reports a new ... full story -
Rehabilitation Helps Prevent Depression from Age-Related Vision Loss
July 9, 2014 — Depression is a common risk for people who have lost their vision from age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but a new study shows that a type of rehabilitation therapy can cut this risk in half. ... full story -
Huntington's Disease Protein Helps Wire Young Brain
July 8, 2014 — A surprising new role for the Huntington's disease protein has been uncovered: it helps wire connections in early brain development. Understanding more about how the protein works may help ... full story -
New Smartphone App Offers Easy and Inexpensive Solution for Hearing Screening
July 8, 2014 — A lightweight, automated and easy-to-use mobile health solution called hearScreen is ideal for developing countries and use in rural ... full story
- New research links bad diet to loss of smell
- Children as young as three recognize 'cuteness' in faces of people, animals
- Vision loss associated with work status
- Exercise, relaxation activities positively impact people with social anxiety disorders
- Eye movements reveal difference between love and lust
- Measuring nurture: Study shows how 'good mothering' hardwires infant brain
- DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore to develop world's first neural device to restore memory
- Understanding consciousness: Researchers advocate for more scientific research on consciousness
- Working to loosen the grip of severe mental illness
- Teaching the brain to reduce pain
- Study cracks how brain processes emotions
- Rehabilitation helps prevent depression from age-related vision loss
- Huntington's disease protein helps wire young brain
- New smartphone app offers easy and inexpensive solution for hearing screening
- Understanding of how hearing works advanced by new research
- Dodging dots helps explain brain circuitry
- Retired NFL players may be at risk for hearing loss and tinnitus
- Sleep deprivation leads to symptoms of schizophrenia, research shows
- Are conservatives more obedient and agreeable than their liberal counterparts?
- Brain fills gaps to produce a likely picture
- Controlling body movement with light: Neuroscientists inhibit muscle contractions by shining light on spinal cord neurons
- Decoding characteristic food odors
- Chimps like listening to music with a different beat
- We speak as we feel, we feel as we speak
- People with tinnitus process emotions differently from their peers, researchers report
- Music can help neuroscience: Detecting patterns in neuronal dendrite spines by translating them into music
- Food scientists working to diminish, mask bitter tastes in foods
- Challenges of visual accessibility for people with low vision
- Exploring the brain: New findings explain how eyes link to prefrontal cortex
- Facelock: New password alternative which plays to the strengths of human memory
- Gestures that speak: Gesticulating while speaking is not just a 'colorful' habit
- Sensitive? Emotional? Empathetic? It could be in your genes
- Modeling how neurons work together may help design robotic limbs
- Hippocampal activity during music listening exposes the memory-boosting power of music
- Fireworks, construction, marching bands can cause permanent hearing loss
- Distracted minds still see blurred lines
- Hearing protein required to convert sound into brain signals
- Eye's optical quality deteriorates after alcohol consumption
- Real or fake? Research shows brain uses multiple clues for facial recognition
- Human stem cells used to create light-sensitive retina in a dish
- Game technology teaches mice, men to hear better in noisy environments
- Economic duress may spur racial discrimination: As economy declines, African Americans perceived as 'blacker', study suggests
- Is glaucoma a brain disease? Scientists find that jigsaw effect in glaucoma patients proves it is
- Making artificial vision look more natural
- Crows' memories are made of this: Scientists discover neurons allowing crows to remember short-term
- Unlocking the potential of stem cells to repair brain damage
- Ice cream sensations graphed on computer, may help to build better tasting food
- 'Cool' factor separates e-cigarettes from nicotine inhalers, study finds
- Stress hormone receptors localized in sweet taste cells
- Even at infancy, humans can visually identify objects that stand out
- Neuron tells stem cells to grow new neurons: First piece of new brain-repair circuit identified
- Pleasant smells increase facial attractiveness
- Neural transplant reduces absence epilepsy seizures in mice
- 'Vocal fry' hurts women in the labor market
- Cocktail party neuroscience: Making sense of voices in a crowd
- Sight for sore eyes: Augmented reality without the discomfort
- Scientists control rapid re-wiring of brain circuits using patterned visual stimulation
- Pattern of cognitive risks in some children with cochlear implants identified by researchers
- How the 'gut feeling' shapes fear
- New neural pathway found in eyes that aids in vision
- Seeing is a matter of experience: Visual perception for faces, letters similar
- Rhythmic bursts of electrical activity from cells in ear teach brain how to hear
- Pregnant women respond to music with stronger physiological changes in blood pressure
- Key factor in early auditory system development discovered
- Pitch-detection secrets of the inner ear revealed by research
- Alpha waves organize to-do list for brain
- Neurosurgeon uses depth electrodes for speech mapping
- Not just a pretty face, although that helps female politicians on election day
- Ongoing quest to silence tinnitus
- Tracking the source of 'selective attention' problems in brain-injured vets
- Experiencing letters as colors: New insights into synesthesia
- Elevating Brain Fluid Pressure Could Prevent Vision Loss
- Listening to bipolar disorder: Smartphone App detects mood swings via voice analysis
- Bad at recognizing people: Blame your genes
- Musical training can increase blood flow in the brain
- Noise-induced 'hidden hearing loss' mechanism discovered
- App to assist the hearing impaired
- Preparing for parenthood: Pregnant women show increased activity in right side of brain
- 'Exploding head syndrome': Real but overlooked sleep disorder
- Seeing 'Jesus in toast' phenomenon perfectly normal, professor says
- 'Laughter Guy' dissects features of counterfeit chortling
- Stop shouting at me: Why clear speech can sound angry
- Wines' fruity flavors fade first, science finds
- When wine hits the right nerve: Mechanism for appreciation of the barrique character decoded
- Spotting a famous face in the crowd
- What frog courtship can tell us about human small talk
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