Neuroscience

Get Off The Internet: The Rest Will Do Your Short-Term Memory Good

While you are reading this article, you could be getting a little smarter, but you could also be losing important information. An idle brain is still doing important work and in the age of constant information overload, it’s a good idea to go offline on a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 20 2013 - 10:08am

Do Men Cheat More Than Women? If So, It May Be Biological, Says Psychologist

A recently published paper strongly suggests men succumb to sexual temptations more than women — for example, cheating on a partner or stealing a girl from another guy — because they experience strong sexual impulses, not because they have weak self-contr ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2013 - 11:06am

An Evolutionary Hypothesis For Why Humans Are Musical

Why don't apes have musical talent? Humans, parrots, small birds, elephants, whales, and bats do and Matz Larsson, senior physician at the Lung Clinic at Örebro University Hospital in Sweden, asserts that the ability to mimic and imitate things like ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 23 2013 - 10:30am

See How Your Baby Detects Dolts

Experimenting with Babies: 50 Amazing Science Projects You Can Perform on Your Kid, out today, teaches parents how to recreate landmark scientific studies on cognitive, motor, social and behavioral development—using their own bundles of joy as the researc ...

Article - Shaun Gallagher - Oct 1 2013 - 2:14am

Playing With Blocks May Help Children's Spatial And Math Thinking

Instead of letting them mess around on the Wii or, worse, watching a "Baby Einstein" video, the way to make kids of all ages and incomes smarter could be as simple as handing them a few blocks. Playing with blocks may help preschoolers develop t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2013 - 5:26pm

Ballet Dancers' Brains Are Different Too

Previous research into genetic variants has shown that dancers really are different than most people and a new neuroscience study sheds some light on ballet brains as well. Differences in the brain structure of ballet dancers may help them avoid feeling d ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 27 2013 - 12:51am

Pheromones: Tears For Fears Is Not Just A Bad 1980s Band

Nocturnal animals use their noses to stay alive. Mice, among others, depend on their impressive olfactory powers to sniff out food or avoid danger in the dark, using a streamlined system that sends the sensory cue to neural centers in the brain that need ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2013 - 6:01pm

Einstein's Brain Was Unique- Just Like Yours

The left and right hemispheres of Albert Einstein's brain were unusually well connected to each other, according to a paper, which then determines that may have contributed to his brilliance. The study says it is the first to detail Einstein's c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2013 - 8:04pm

Cargo Cult Science Debunked: Brain Training Games Won't Help Intelligence

You've seen advertisements for brain training games, apps, and websites that promise to give your mental abilities a boost- even "Baby Einstein" videos for infants make the claim that they will lead to higher intelligence. A new paper finds ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2013 - 1:03pm

English Lit Scholars: Poetry Acts Like Music In Their Brains

A group at the University of Exeter used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology on the brains of 13 volunteers, all faculty members and graduate students in English at the school, to see how they respond to poetry and prose- and then decl ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 9 2013 - 12:13pm