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This is a still from the grocery store brain training game

Featured Neuroscience

·May 7, 2019·5 min read

Train your brain to eat less sugar

A new brain training game in which players navigate a grocery store, earning rewards for selecting healthy food options, may help to reduce the desire to give into sugar cravings. Participants who had higher initial preferences for sugary foods lost as much as 3.1% body weight following daily gameplay.

This is a loot box

Featured Psychology

·May 1, 2019·3 min read

Lure of the ‘loot box’ looks a lot like gambling

Loot boxes, a common reward in modern video games, may drive gambling like behaviors in adult gamers, researchers report.

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·April 13, 2016·6 min read

Blurring the Boundary Between Man and Machines: Are Humans the New Supercomputer?

When it comes to the battle between man and machines, human skills are still superior in some areas, a new study reports.