Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·March 30, 2021·5 min readScreams of ‘Joy’ Sound Like ‘Fear’ When Heard Out of ContextWhen people hear screams of excited happiness, they tend to confuse the emotion with fear. Researchers say the bias toward categorizing excited and joyfully screams as fear has evolutionary roots.Read More
ElectrophysiologyFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·July 31, 2020·5 min readTo Distinguish Contexts, Animals Think ProbabilisticallyThe act of remapping an area can be mathematically modeled as probabilistic reasoning in rodents.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·January 9, 2019·4 min readCarrots or Candy Bars? Context Shapes Healthy Food ChoicesAccording to researchers, our food choices may be affected by what sits closest by on the supermarket shelf. Paradoxically, the close proximity of an indulgent food can cause more people to opt for a healthier snack.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 11, 2018·6 min readHow Returning to a Prior Context Briefly Heightens Memory RecallAfter creating a memory in a context, engram cells encoding the memory in the hippocampus become more excitable when the context is repeated a short time later, researchers report.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience·November 1, 2017·5 min readBabies Can Use Context to Look For ThingsAt 6 months of age, babies are capable of memory guided attention, a new study reveals. Young infants are able to learn and remember contextual visual cues to find objects of interest, researchers report. The findings shed new light on both typical and atypical brain development.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·August 12, 2017·5 min readTaboo Words’ Impact Mediated by Context, Listeners’ Likelihood of Being OffendedAccording to an Acta Psychologica study, context and an individual's likelihood of being offended influence how profanity effects attention.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 21, 2017·5 min readContext and Distraction Skew What We Predict and RememberA new study looks at how context can alter how we predict weight and what we are able to remember.Read More