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Brief bursts, big insights

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 14, 2020

A new method for analyzing brain oscillation data can detect short beta wave bursts in real-time within neural frequency bands of 20 Hertz. The method also shows how rats can increase the occurrences of these bursts.... Read More...

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State of mind: The end of personality as we know it

Neuroscience NewsFebruary 13, 2020

A new framework sheds light on how the mind adapts to different situations. The study proposes a unifying principle for the cortical mechanisms where state of mind is determined. ... Read More...

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Reward improves visual perceptual learning, but only after people sleep

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 17, 2020

Reward does not improve visual perception learning unless it is followed by a good night's sleep.... Read More...

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Food textures affect perceptions of healthiness

Neuroscience NewsJanuary 9, 2020

The texture of certain foods may impact how healthy people believe they are. Foods that have less explicitly textured surfaces are perceived to be tastier, but not healthier. ... Read More...

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In a split second, clothes make the man more competent in the eyes of others

Neuroscience NewsDecember 9, 2019

There may be some truth to the common idea that we judge a person's competence based on the clothes they wear. A new study reveals we perceive a person to have higher levels of competence if the clothes they wear look expensive.... Read More...

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Approaching the perception of touch in the brain

Neuroscience NewsNovember 25, 2019

Parts of the prefrontal cortex and posterior parietal lobe, in addition to the somatosensory cortex, play critical roles in touch perception.... Read More...

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How people trick themselves into thinking something is heavier than it really is

Neuroscience NewsNovember 20, 2019

Holding a steering wheel at different arm positions can influence our perception of how much force we need to steer.... Read More...

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Faith, truth and forgiveness: How your brain processes abstract thoughts

Neuroscience NewsOctober 29, 2019

The human brain acts like an indexing system to help compose the meaning of abstract concepts.... Read More...

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True lies: How letter patterns color perceptions of truth

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 25, 2019

The sequence of letters influences whether people believe a message to be true or fake.... Read More...

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Distractions distort what’s real

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 13, 2019

Distractions may change our perceptions of reality, making us believe we witnessed something different from what we really saw.... Read More...

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Bad to the bone or just bad behavior?

Neuroscience NewsSeptember 6, 2019

How we perceive moral goodness or moral badness, as either biological and innate traits or potentially changeable, can guide whether we are willing to be lenient over other peoples' transgressions.... Read More...

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Being left-handed doesn’t mean you are right-brained – so what does it mean?

Neuroscience NewsAugust 15, 2019

Researchers look at the myths and the facts about left-handedness.... Read More...

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perception

Brief bursts, big insights

State of mind: The end of personality as we know it

Reward improves visual perceptual learning, but only after people sleep

Food textures affect perceptions of healthiness

In a split second, clothes make the man more competent in the eyes of others

Approaching the perception of touch in the brain

How people trick themselves into thinking something is heavier than it really is

Faith, truth and forgiveness: How your brain processes abstract thoughts

True lies: How letter patterns color perceptions of truth

Distractions distort what’s real

Bad to the bone or just bad behavior?

Being left-handed doesn’t mean you are right-brained – so what does it mean?