FeaturedNeuroscienceNeuroscience VideosOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·August 1, 2017·5 min readMagic Helps Unlock How the Brain WorksResearchers have developed a new version of the classic Mirror Box Illusion to help better understand how the brain processes multiple sensory inputs to perceive our bodies and environment.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·July 19, 2017·4 min readBrains Are More Plastic Than We ThoughtA new Neuron study reports practice can alter how the brain utilizes sensory information and, depending on how the training is performed, the middle temporal area can be critical for visual perception.Read More
Auditory NeuroscienceFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychologyVisual Neuroscience·July 18, 2017·4 min readHearing a Sound Can Alter Perception of Finger SizeHearing ascending sounds causes people to estimate the length of their fingers to be longer than when they hear a descending or constant sound, report UCL researchers.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·June 20, 2017·5 min readFamiliar Faces Look Happier Than Unfamiliar OnesA new study reveals that people tend to perceive familiar faces as looking happier than those they are not familiar with.Read More
FeaturedNeurology·June 2, 2017·5 min readWhy Playing a Musical Instrument Can Protect Brain HealthFindings could help to develop new neuro-rehabilitation interventions through musical training.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·May 15, 2017·6 min readPsychedelics in The Lab and Clinic – Making Up For Lost TimeUsed in a controlled psychotherapy setting, psychedelics have the potential to treat psychiatric treatments that do not respond to conventional medications, researchers argue.Read More
FeaturedNeuroscience·May 10, 2017·4 min readIn Brain Evolution, Size Matters – Most of the TimeStudy reveals we may have first evolved larger brains that allows for adaptions which enhanced brain regions controlling specific abilities.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·May 10, 2017·2 min readLive Interactions With Robots Increase Their Perceived Human LikenessAccording to researchers, people who watch live interactions between robots and other people are more likely to consider the robot to have more humanlike qualities.Read More
FeaturedPsychology·May 9, 2017·2 min readSmile and the World Thinks You’re OlderAccording to researchers, people can perceive you to be up to two years older when they see you smile.Read More
AutismFeaturedNeuroscienceOpen Neuroscience ArticlesPsychology·May 5, 2017·3 min readNew Insight Into How Fragile X Syndrome Disrupts PerceptionAccording to researchers, people with Fragile X have 'noisier' brains, which can impair information flow and make social interactions more difficult.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 21, 2017·5 min readContext and Distraction Skew What We Predict and RememberA new study looks at how context can alter how we predict weight and what we are able to remember.Read More
FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology·April 17, 2017·6 min readRepeating Non-Verbs as Well as Verbs Can Boost the Syntactic Priming EffectA new study reports syntactic priming can be boosted by repeating non-verbs, as well as verbs.Read More
