Scientists show how adversity dulls our perceptions
Adversity, we are told, heightens our senses, imprinting sights and sounds precisely in our memories. But new Weizmann Institute research, which appeared in Nature Neuroscience this week, suggests the...
View ArticleImmunity in the mind
Do our own prejudices and perceptions of people help defend our bodies against infectious disease?
View ArticleStudy: Fewer kids have severe mental problems; more get help
Contrary to public perception and horrific cases that make headlines, serious mental problems are declining among the nation's youth, and there has been a big rise in how many are getting help, a new...
View ArticleDevelopment of face perception in Japanese children
Face perception plays an important role in social communication. There have been many studies of face perception in human using non-invasive neuroimaging and electrophysiological methods, but studies...
View ArticleSwitching off brain circuit renders mice 'out of touch' with environment
The sense of touch is important but often taken for granted in daily life because it seems simple and automatic. New research suggests that the apparent simplicity of tactile sensation comes from a...
View ArticleAll sounds made equal in melancholy
The room is loud with chatter. Glasses clink. Soft music, perhaps light jazz or strings, fills the air. Amidst all of these background sounds, it can be difficult to understand what an adjacent person...
View Article'Pain sensing' gene discovery could help in development of new methods of...
A gene essential to the production of pain-sensing neurons in humans has been identified by an international team of researchers co-led by the University of Cambridge. The discovery, reported today in...
View ArticleFond memories make fragrances a favorite
When the scent of a fragrant product triggers a fond memory that a customer holds, it is more likely to be a hit. So says Rachel Herz of Brown University, and Haruko Sugiyama and colleagues at the Kao...
View ArticleHow to manage pain in the ER: Ask the patient
Simply asking the question, "Do you want more pain medication?" resulted in satisfactory pain control in 99 percent of emergency department patients participating in a study. The study of a new...
View ArticleCall for urgent change to cervical cancer risk perception in older women
As Cervical Screening Awareness Week begins, a Keele University academic is calling for cervical screening programmes and perceptions of cervical cancer to be reviewed urgently, to encourage more older...
View ArticleChanging faces: We can look more trustworthy, but not more competent,...
We can alter our facial features in ways that make us look more trustworthy, but don't have the same ability to appear more competent, a team of New York University psychology researchers has found.
View ArticleHow a newborn baby sees you
A newborn infant can see its parents' expressions at a distance of 30 cm. For the first time researchers have managed to reconstruct infants visual perception of the world.
View ArticleSeeing is believing: How brains make sense of the visual world
If your eyes deceive you, blame your brain. Many optical illusions work because what we see clashes with what we expect to see.
View ArticleResearcher disputes claim that humans can distinguish one trillion odors
An Arizona State University researcher is calling into question recent findings that the human nose is capable of distinguishing at least 1 trillion odors. Rick Gerkin, an assistant research professor...
View ArticleThat neat and tidy map of tastes on the tongue you learned in school is all...
Everybody has seen the tongue map – that little diagram of the tongue with different sections neatly cordoned off for different taste receptors. Sweet in the front, salty and sour on the sides and...
View ArticleIs defeat sweeter than victory? Researchers reveal the science behind...
Victory was sweet for the U.S. Women's World Cup team 5-2 victory this weekend – but it's a safe bet that the vanquished team from Japan was reaching for actual sweets after the stunning upset.
View ArticleHousestaff, attendings disagree on quality of progress notes
(HealthDay)—Internal medicine attendings and housestaff disagree on the impact of electronic health records (EHRs) on the quality of progress notes, according to a study published online July 2 in the...
View ArticleSome like it sweet, others not so much: It's partly in the genes
A new study from the Monell Center and collaborating institutions suggests that a single set of genes affects a person's perception of sweet taste, regardless of whether the sweetener is a natural...
View ArticleHow does color blindness affect color preferences?
(Medical Xpress)—Dichromacy is a color vision defect in which one of the three types of cone photoreceptors is missing. The condition is hereditary and sex-linked, mostly affecting males. Although...
View ArticlePerceive this: The human brain controls alpha-band oscillation phase to...
Standard models of perception are stimulus-driven, meaning that the external perceptual event drives the brain's perception-related activity. However, the tide may be turning: recent ideas suggest that...
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