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Brain learns to recognize familiar faces regardless of where they are in the visual field

November 10, 2018 Brain Injury, Intelligence, Language Acquisition, Learning Disorders, Perception, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology

A Dartmouth study finds that recognition of faces varies by where they appear in the visual field and this variability

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Don’t offer co-workers help unless asked: If you thought that proactively offering help to your co-workers was a good thing, think again

October 23, 2018 Behavior, Hearing Impairment, Multiple Sclerosis, Perception, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology, stress

If you thought that proactively offering help to your co-workers was a good thing, think again. New workplace research from

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Do lovers always tease each other? Study shows how couples handle laughter and banter

October 16, 2018 Behavior, Borderline Personality Disorder, Gender Difference, Perception, psychology, Racial Issues, Relationships, Social Psychology

Laughter plays an important role in romantic relationships — whether or not it’s shared together or directed at the significant

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Freeloaders beware: Incentives to foster cooperation are just around the corner: Numerical simulations show that it is possible to coerce people to collaborate for the common good

October 11, 2018 Consumer Behavior, Memory, Neuroscience, Perception, psychology, Relationships, Social Psychology

In our society, there are always a certain percentage of people who adopt a freeloader attitude. They let other members

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Songbird data yields new theory for learning sensorimotor skills: Mathematical models describes distribution of sensory errors

October 4, 2018 Animal Learning and Intelligence, Behavioral Science, Birds, Computer Modeling, Educational Psychology, Language Acquisition, Mathematical Modeling, Mathematics, Perception

Songbirds learn to sing in a way similar to how humans learn to speak — by listening to their fathers

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Motor learning for precise motor execution: Motor learning for explicit and implicit controls

September 25, 2018 Children's Health, Educational Psychology, Intelligence, Nervous System, Neuroscience, Perception, Psychology Research, Restless Leg Syndrome

It is generally accepted that precise motor control in our daily life depends on acquisition of an internal model. One

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Gut sense: Neural superhighway conveys messages from gut to brain in milliseconds

September 21, 2018 Brain Injury, Brain Tumor, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Gastrointestinal Problems, Nervous System, Neuroscience, Perception, ulcers

If you’ve ever felt nauseous before an important presentation, or foggy after a big meal, then you know the power

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Teenagers have a hard time reading one another’s tones of voice: But when it comes to understanding adult tones of voice — they are right on!

August 29, 2018 Child Psychology, K-12 Education, Learning Disorders, Mental Health, parenting, Perception, psychology, Social Psychology

Your teenage daughter gets into a shouting match with another kid at school. It turns out that it may have

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The spotlight of attention is more like a strobe light

August 24, 2018 Behavioral Science, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Endangered Animals, Learning Disorders, Monkeys, Nature, Perception, psychology

You don’t focus as well as you think you do. That’s the fundamental finding of a team of researchers from

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Stress makes people better at processing bad news

August 8, 2018 anxiety, Cholesterol, Healthy Aging, Mental Health, Mental Health Research, Perception, stress, Workplace Health

Feeling stressed or anxious makes people more able to process and internalise bad news, finds a new UCL-led study. The

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