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·March 30, 2021·5 min read

Screams of ‘Joy’ Sound Like ‘Fear’ When Heard Out of Context

When 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.

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·September 10, 2020·5 min read

Why Human-Like Robots Elicit Uncanny Feelings

Perceived animacy decreases significantly as a function of exposure time for android faces.

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·August 18, 2020·5 min read

How a Single Gene Drives Aggression in Wild Songbird

When the expression of the ER-alpha gene was blocked in white-throated sparrows, the level of aggression they exhibited decreased.

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·March 2, 2020·5 min read

Earliest look at newborns’ visual cortex reveals the minds babies start with

A newborn's brain is more adult-like than previously assumed. Neuroimaging revealed much of the visual cortex scaffolding is in place, along with patterns of brain activity at 27 days of age, although it is not quite as strong as seen in adult brains.

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·January 27, 2020·4 min read

How personality predicts seeing others as sex objects

Those with dark personality traits such as psychopathy, sadism, low affective empathy, narcissism, cold-heartedness, and meanness, are more likely to sexually objectify those of the opposite sex.

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·December 18, 2019·4 min read

Dogs process numerical quantities in similar brain region as humans

fMRI neuroimaging reveals the parietotemporal cortex of dogs responds to numeric concepts. The study provides evidence that numerosity is a shared evolutionary neural mechanism.

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·October 21, 2019·3 min read

What’s good for the heart is good for the brain

Twin study reveals higher cardiovascular health is associated with better cognitive health.

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·October 7, 2019·5 min read

Navigating ‘Neuralville’: Virtual town helps map brain functions

Combining neuroimaging and a constructed virtual reality town, researchers found the brain uses three different systems to perceive environment. One system allows us to recognize a place, another helps navigate through that location, and the third helps navigate from one place to another. The parahippocampal place area (PPA) helps encode location recognition, while the retrosplenial complex allows for mentally mapping the locations of specific places.

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·June 30, 2019·4 min read

Screams contain a ‘calling card’ for the vocalizer’s identity

Listeners can correctly identify whether pairs of screams originate from the same person or two different people. Findings suggest human screams convey a level of individual identity and shed new light on their evolutionary origin.

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Brain Cancer Featured Neurology Neuroscience

·June 25, 2019·4 min read

Scientists track brain tumor turncoats with advanced imaging

Advanced imaging techniques visualize macrophages in brain tumors in mouse models of glioblastoma.

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·June 13, 2019·5 min read

The whisper of schizophrenia: Machine learning finds ‘sound’ words predict psychosis

A new deep learning algorithm can predict those at risk of psychosis with 93% accuracy by examining the latent semantic content of an individual's speech.