When consumers taste cheap wine and rate it highly because they believe it is expensive, is it because prejudice has blinded them to the actual taste, or has prejudice actually changed their brain function, causing them to ...
Social Sciences
Apr 29, 2015
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(Phys.org) -- A research team made up of members from Indiana University, Tufts and MIT and led by Erin Treacy Solovey, a has built a brain monitoring system that offloads some of the computer related activities a person ...
Call a bird "birdbrained" and they may call "fowl." Cornell University researchers have proven that the capacity for learning in birds is not linked to overall brain size, but to the relative size and proportion of their ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2011
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Researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine have gained insight into the mechanism by which a pathological brain protein called tau contributes to the progression of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative ...
Biochemistry
May 2, 2012
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As parents and schools seek to support students' social and emotional needs—and teach them what they need to learn—some education leaders are missing one particularly effective opportunity.
Education
Feb 15, 2022
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In adult human brains, the hippocampus generates new neurons (adult-born neurons, or ABNs) throughout life, helping us maintain memories and regulate emotions. Scientists call this process "adult hippocampus neurogenesis ...
Cell & Microbiology
Apr 18, 2023
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Even as videogames come under scrutiny for potential harmful impacts, researchers and developers are touting digital games for positive effects on health, learning and other social goals.
Software
Mar 17, 2013
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Functional magnetic resonance imaging reveals changes in blood-oxygen levels in different parts of the brain, but the data show nothing about what is actually happening in and between brain cells, information needed to better ...
Engineering
Jun 5, 2017
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Scientists have discovered how the wiring of bees' brains helps them plot the most direct route back to their hive.
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2017
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Mapping genetic influences on connections between neural networks could lead to a better understanding of brain organization and behavior.
Mathematics
May 15, 2018
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