FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·February 16, 2021·4 min readAnswer Quickly to Be BelievedThe longer a person hesitates before answering a question, the less sincere their response seems to others.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·February 12, 2021·6 min readAstrocytes May Be Linked to StutteringAstrocytes in the striatum appear to play a critical role in stuttering. Researchers found treatment with risperidone helped reduce stuttering by increasing the metabolism of striatal astrocytes.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·February 9, 2021·4 min readKey Metaphors in the Most Popular Love Songs Speak of Proximity and PossessionMetaphors represent over 70% of figurative language used to convey love and emotion in pop music. Over two-thirds of love songs reflect the correlation between physical proximity and possession.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·February 9, 2021·2 min readRecognizing Liars From the Sound of Their Voice?Study identifies key factors in peoples' voices that show when they are lying.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·January 25, 2021·2 min readGrowing up in a Bilingual Home Has Lasting BenefitsChildren who grow up in a bilingual household are quicker at shifting their attention and faster at detecting visual changes than adults who learned a second language later in life.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·January 25, 2021·3 min readStimulating Brain Pathways Shows Origins of Human Language and MemoryThe evolutionary development for both human and primate brains may have been similar for communication and memory.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·January 2, 2021·3 min readDo Toddlers Learning to Spoon-Feed Seek Different Information From Caregivers’ Hands & Faces?During mealtimes, a toddler's gaze toward either the hands or face has different roles in communication.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·December 28, 2020·4 min readLink Between Word Choices and ExtravertsExtraverts tend to use more "positive emotional" and "social process" words when talking, researchers report.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience Articles·December 15, 2020·5 min readTo the Brain, Reading Computer Code Is Not the Same as Reading LanguageInterpreting computer code activates general-purpose brain networks, but not language processing areas.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 9, 2020·4 min readBrains Work Harder While Processing Descriptions of Motion in Other LanguagesOur brains work harder to process information when we read about movement in a way that is not typical of our native languages.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·December 8, 2020·4 min readResearchers Share Database for Studying Individual Differences in Language SkillsA new dataset is available for researchers to investigate individual differences in adult language learning.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·December 7, 2020·3 min readHow the Brain Distinguishes Fact From PossibilityThe human brain contains a perspective-adjusted neural representation for factual information and more elusive cortical signaling representing the computations of possibilities.Read More
