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·November 20, 2017·5 min read

Car, Stroller, Juice: Babies Understand When Words Are Related

An eye tracking study reveals babies as young as 6 months can recognize the meaning of some words.

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Featured Neuroscience

·October 31, 2017·5 min read

Humans Don’t Use As Much Brainpower As We Like to Think

A new study challenges a long standing evolutionary theory regarding our 'uniquely' expansive brain. Researchers report other animals had energy hungry brains long before humans.

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·October 14, 2021·5 min read

Hormone Widely Used as an Autism Treatment Shows No Benefit

Oxytocin therapy is ineffective at improving social skills in children on the autism spectrum.

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·May 30, 2018·5 min read

Details That Look Sharp to People May Be Blurry to Their Pets

A new study reports that while we might not be able to see so well in the dark and are less than adept at distinguishing colors, humans can see in finer detail than most other animals.

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·October 29, 2018·5 min read

Severity of Crime Increases Jury’s Belief in Guilt

A new study reports the more serious the crime, the more likely jurors are likely to believe a person is guilty, regardless of the amount of evidence.

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·April 28, 2021·7 min read

Childhood Air Pollution Exposure Linked to Poor Mental Health at Age 18

The more exposure a child has to nitrogen oxide, the higher the risk of them developing mental health disorders at age eighteen.

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·March 20, 2019·2 min read

It’s spring already? Physics explains why time flies as we age

A slower rate of image processing speeds up our perception of time as we grow older.

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·November 14, 2022·5 min read

Feeling Lonely? What We Want From Our Relationships Can Change With Age

Expectations of what a person expects from an interpersonal relationship change significantly as we age. Researchers say that many people still feel lonely, even when they don't spend too much time alone.

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·March 15, 2021·5 min read

Lab Studies of Emotion and Well-Being May Be Missing Real-World Anxiety

A person's natural level of anxiety may have a significant impact on results for lab-based studies of emotion and anxiety.

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Featured Neuroscience

·April 12, 2019·4 min read

Artificial intelligence singles out neurons faster than a human can

Convolutional neural network model significantly outperforms previous methods and is as accurate as humans in segmenting active and overlapping neurons.