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·July 28, 2019·5 min read

Using visual imagery to find your true passions

Using visual imagery can help people to develop new interests. When girls visualize activities from a first-person perspective, positive memories associated with participating in that activity return. Researchers say, if applied to scientific activities, visualization could help females to develop a vested interest in STEM subjects.

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·March 19, 2018·7 min read

We Can Read Each Other’s Emotions From Subtle Changes in Facial Color

Researchers reveal people are able to correctly identify, with 75% accuracy, expressions of emotion in others based on subtle changes in color around the nose, eyebrows and chin.

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·December 19, 2018·4 min read

What Are You Looking At? How Attention Affects Decision Making

Researchers, using eye tracking software, report what we look at helps guide our decisions when faced with two visible choices.

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·March 15, 2021·5 min read

What Happens in Your Brain When You ‘Lose Yourself’ in Fiction

Using characters from "Game of Thrones", researchers investigated what happens in the brain when people immerse themselves in fiction. The study found the more people became immersed in a story, the more they "became" the fictional character while reading. This was reflected in activity changes in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain associated with thinking about one's self.

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·October 6, 2021·5 min read

What Makes Adult Children Cut Ties With Parents

Mothers who report estrangement from their adult children report they often believe their ex-husbands, and the current partner of the child is responsible for the break in their relationships. Additionally, some cite mental health problems experienced by their child as a factor for estrangement.

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·November 7, 2019·4 min read

What your friends’ brains look like when they think of you

To accurately perceive another person, your neural representation of that person has to match the pattern in the persons' brain when they think about themselves.

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·June 3, 2021·5 min read

Who’s More Susceptible to Believing Falsehoods?

Study reveals conservatives are less able to distinguish political truths from falsehoods, and the glut of right-wing media organizations producing politically incorrect content is likely to blame.

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·February 27, 2018·3 min read

Why Are Some Mushrooms “Magic”?

Researchers investigate the evolutionary development of psilocybin in some mushrooms. They conclude mushrooms may have evolved to be hallucinogenic to lower the odds of being eaten by insects.

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·April 13, 2022·4 min read

Why Certain Brain Neurons Are Vulnerable to Degeneration

Wolframin-expressing excitatory neurons (WFS1) are more vulnerable in the entorhinal cortex.WFS1 may reduce tau-pathology and neurodegeneration via the regulation of stress response to the abnormal buildup of tau aggregates and the downstream protein degradation pathway.

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·August 12, 2020·5 min read

Young Children Would Rather Explore Than Get Rewards

Compared to adults, children continue to explore other options than using knowledge to capitalize on reward, to see if the value has changed. Children approach exploration systematically to make sure they don't miss anything.

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·July 7, 2017·4 min read

Your Hands May Reveal the Struggle to Maintain Self Control

A new study reports your hands could reveal whether you are disciplined or lack self control before a physical decision is made. The findings could shed new light on how our cognitive processes unfold to allow us to resist temptation.

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