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July 26, 2024

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Good Timing: Study Unravels How Our Brains Track Time

July 18, 2024 — Ever hear the old adage that time flies when you're having fun? A new study suggests that there's a lot of truth to the ...

Food Aroma Study May Help Explain Why Meals Taste Bad in Space

July 16, 2024 — A new study on common food aromas may help explain why astronauts report that meals taste bland in space and struggle to eat their normal nutritional intake. This research has broader implications for improving the diets of isolated people, ...

With Gene Editing, Mice With a Form of Inherited Deafness Can Hear Again

July 12, 2024 — Researchers have used gene editing to restore hearing in adult mice with a type of inherited hearing loss. They showed that shutting down a damaged copy of a gene called a microRNA (miRNA) enabled the animals to regain hearing. The approach may ...

AI Chatbots Have Shown They Have an 'Empathy Gap' That Children Are Likely to Miss

July 10, 2024 — Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have frequently shown signs of an 'empathy gap' that puts young users at risk of distress or harm, raising the urgent need for 'child-safe AI', according to a ...

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Study Uses Game of Thrones to Advance Understanding of Face Blindness

July 23, 2024 — Psychologists have used the hit TV series Game of Thrones to understand how the brain enables us to recognize faces. Their findings provide new insights into prosopagnosia or face blindness, a ...

Ultrasound Technology Can Be Used to Boost Mindfulness, Study Finds

July 11, 2024 — In a new study, researchers used low-intensity ultrasound technology to noninvasively alter a brain region associated with activities such as daydreaming, recalling memories and envisioning the ...

Researchers Uncover Brain Region's Role in Hearing and Learning

July 11, 2024 — The human brain is remarkably adept at adjusting what we hear based on contexts, like our current environment or priorities, but it's still unknown how exactly the brain helps us detect, filter and ...

Holiday Season Already? Anticipation Might Make Time Seem to Fly

July 10, 2024 — Christmas or Ramadan might seem to come around more quickly each year, for people who pay more attention to time, are more forgetful of plans, and love a good holiday, according to a new study. ...

Understanding the Roots of Chronic Pain

July 11, 2024 — Researchers have identified an ion channel that contributes to chronic pain, suggesting a new target for pain ...

Major Trial Looks at Most Effective Speech Therapy for People With Parkinson's Disease

July 10, 2024 — A major clinical trial has shown the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT LOUD ) is more effective than the current speech and language therapy ...

Brain-Imaging Study Reveals Curiosity as It Emerges

July 8, 2024 — You look up into the clear blue sky and see something you can't quite identify. Is it a balloon? A plane? A UFO? You're curious, right? A research team has for the first time witnessed what is ...

Measuring Body Language

July 3, 2024 — A large international and interdisciplinary research team has developed software to measure the objective kinematic features of movements that express ...

Understanding the Synchronization of Physiological States During a Live Music Performance

July 2, 2024 — In a concert, members of the audience can respond emotionally to music, owing to their biological synchronization to the audio input. However, the ...

How Our Brains Develop Facial Recognition Skills: New Face-Detecting Brain Circuit

July 2, 2024 — Scientists have uncovered a brain circuit in primates that rapidly detects faces. The findings help not only explain how primates sense and recognize ...

Language Affects How Quickly We Perceive Shades of Color

July 24, 2024 — People who speak a language that has multiple words for different shades of colour perceive the shades more ...

New and Improved Camera Inspired by the Human Eye

July 1, 2024 — Computer scientists have invented a camera mechanism that improves how robots see and react to the world around them. Inspired by how the human eye works, their innovative camera system mimics the ...

Finding the Sweet Spot in Brain Development

July 1, 2024 — Short-lived neural connections in the mouse brain help prime sensory circuits, forever affecting the mouse's sense of touch. Neuroscientists have discovered that a receptor protein named mGluR1 ...

Chemo Drug May Cause Significant Hearing Loss in Longtime Cancer Survivors

June 28, 2024 — A new study tracked a cohort of testicular cancer survivors who received cisplatin-based chemotherapy for an average of 14 years, revealing that 78% experience significant difficulties in everyday ...

Conversation Is Changing: Why People Speak More Alike Today

June 25, 2024 — Over a 20-year period people from these sectors changed their behavior -- resonating with one another significantly more than they used to and gearing towards a more engaging style. We talk like ...

Facial Recognition Linked to Close Social Bonds, Not Social Butterflies

June 24, 2024 — Do you have trouble recognizing faces, or do you never forget a face? The better you are at facial recognition, the more supportive relationships you are likely to have, regardless of your ...

Sound Stimulation With Precise Timings Can Help Understand Brain Wave Functions

June 19, 2024 — Using sound to stimulate certain brain waves has the potential to help those with dementia or cognitive decline sleep better, reveals a new study. Sleep disturbances are a common feature in dementia ...

The 'Queen of the Night' Does Not Whistle

June 18, 2024 — Opera singers have to use the extreme limits of their voice range. Many pedagogical and scientific sources suggest that the highest pitches reached in classical singing can only be produced with a ...

At-Camera Gaze Can Increase Scores in Simulated Interviews

June 17, 2024 — Eye-contact has a significant impact on interpersonal evaluation, and online job interviews are no exception. In addition to the quality of a resume, the direction of the interviewee's gaze ...

Face Screening Tool Detects Stroke in Seconds

June 17, 2024 — A new smartphone face-screening tool could help paramedics to identify stroke in seconds -- much sooner and more accurately than is possible with current technologies. Strokes, which affect millions ...

Breakthrough Approach Enables Bidirectional BCI Functionality

June 17, 2024 — Brain-computer interfaces or BCIs hold immense potential for individuals with a wide range of neurological conditions, but the road to implementation is long and nuanced for both the invasive and ...

Are Mixed Emotions Real? New Research Says Yes

June 13, 2024 — Neuroscientists found that brains display distinct neural activity when experiencing emotions such as bitter-sweetness. The advance could help solve a longstanding scientific debate: whether ...

Being Given a Choice Makes Touch More Pleasant, Study Finds

June 13, 2024 — When people are asked for consent before being touched, they have a more pleasant experience of the interaction, researchers have ...

Brain Regions That Bias the Brain's Response to Pleasure in Bipolar Disorder Identified

June 12, 2024 — Momentary shifts in mood, even those lasting just a matter of seconds, profoundly alter the brain's response to pleasurable experiences in people with bipolar disorder, finds a new ...

Incorporating 'Touch' Into Social Media Interactions Can Increase Feelings of Support and Approval

June 12, 2024 — Including 'tactile emoticons' into social media communications can enhance communication, according to a new ...

Just Thinking About a Location Activates Mental Maps in the Brain

June 12, 2024 — Researchers found that mental representations known as cognitive maps, located in the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, are activated when the brain performs mental simulations of a navigational ...

Do Traumatic Life Experiences Impact Perception of Distressing Imagery?

June 11, 2024 — Researchers have examined viewer responses to images of distressing and neutrally decorated masks and whether personal life history, particularly past experiences of trauma and difficulty, affected ...

Haiku May Shine a Light on Humans' Relationship With Insects

June 11, 2024 — Haiku poems have reflected humans' experiences in nature for hundreds of years, including observations of bugs and other wildlife. Recently, researchers analyzed which insects were mentioned the ...

Research on the Visual Rabbit Illusion Takes a Leap Forward

June 11, 2024 — Researchers have discovered new variations of an illusion created when we see three rapid flashes in our side vision. Regardless of the position of the second flash, the illusion causes the brain to ...

First Week After Birth Is Critical for Development of Senses

June 11, 2024 — Researchers have found that the maturation of the senses for smell and touch is closely linked in mice and that this strong interaction takes place within a narrow developmental time window. These ...