News tagged with social memory
Study: Men Losing Their Minds Over Women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research reported in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology has shown that men go ga-ga over pretty women. They simply lose their minds (while women keep theirs).
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 07, 2009 |
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Social wasps show how bigger brains provide complex cognition
Across many groups of animals, species with bigger brains often have better cognitive abilities. But it's been unclear whether overall brain size or the size of specific brain areas is the key.
Apr 11, 2011 |
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Hormone important in recognizing familiar faces
Oxytocin, a hormone involved in child-birth and breast-feeding, helps people recognize familiar faces, according to new research in the January 7 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Study participants who had one dose o ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 06, 2009 |
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Birds in captivity lose hippocampal mass
(PhysOrg.com) -- Being in captivity for just a few weeks can reduce the volume of the hippocampus by as much as 23 percent, according to a new Cornell study.
Oct 12, 2009 |
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Searching the brain for social networks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Why do some people tend to make inappropriate comments in social situations? Why do some people misread cues about how others feel about them?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Bad mood, better recall, researchers find
People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 11, 2009 |
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Toshiba launchs FlashAir, first SDHC memory card with embedded WLAN
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will launch the world's first SDHC memory card with embedded wireless LAN functionality to meet the SD Memory Card Standard. The new card, "FlashAir", has an 8GB ...
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Social memory in Drosophila
Positive social interactions exist within Drosophila: when in a group, Drosophila flies have better memory than when they are isolated. Thomas Preat's team at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie (CNRS, France) ...
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Paternal mice bond with their offspring through the power of touch
New research from neuroscientist Samuel Weiss, PhD, director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the Faculty of Medicine, shows that paternal mice that physically interact with their babies grow new brain cells and form lasting ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 10, 2010 |
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