Yep. It’s the beholder. Discover shows how a D&D-playing kid helped solve a longstanding problem with how humans react to eyes:
… Read the rest “12-year-old solves psych problem with Monster Manual.”In 1998, [University of British Columbia psychologist
No one can possibly do better than the Archives of Sexual Behavior in describing this study. The article’s headline says all it needs to:
… Read the rest “The mere anticipation of an interaction with a woman can impair men’s cognitive performance.”The mere anticipation of an interaction with
The Independent has a surprisingly lucid summary of a 25-year longitudinal study of cannabis users from ages 13 to 38. And they found that teen marijuana users dropped their IQs by 8 points… Read the rest “Cannabis does lower IQ. By about 8 points.”
Nature sniffs out a technique for using smells to pick up new information – and new emotional responses – in your sleep:
… Read the rest “Learn in your sleep. With your nose….”Anat Arzi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot,
BBC dispels the myth that Monday’s any more miserable than any other weekday (with the exception, of course, of Friday):
… Read the rest “Monday’s no worse than Tuesday, say grim-faced scientists.”US investigators who looked at a poll of 340,000 people found
Fun to read Sound on Sound’s behind-the-mixing-board analysis of what made “Somebody That I Used To Know” so darn catchy – even though it breaks some Top-40 rules… Read the rest “The Neuroscience of Gotye.”
Scientific American’s “Science Sushi” blog rolls up some recent research connecting cat-parasite Toxoplasma gondii with human suicides:
… Read the rest “Parasites linked to suicides.”in Denmark, serum antibody
Science News examines one system for making music – by taking noise and using thumbs-up or thumbs-down votes to refine it:
… Read the rest “Musical selection. (Or how to evolve a hit.)”Inspired in part by long-running experiments probing the
Medical Xpress takes a closer look at the hazy, flickering way we really perceive the world:
… Read the rest “We only ever glimpse things in flashes….”The [University of Glasgow] researchers studied a prominent brain rhythm associated with visual
AFP goes even farther than that. A common pesticide actually changes the structure of kids’ brains:
… Read the rest “Stupid pesticide lowers your kids’ IQs.”The study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences examined New
The Freakonomics guys look at what it means to be able to make memories from scratch:
… Read the rest “They really can remember for you, wholesale….”Psychologists Andrew Clark, Robert A. Nash, Gabrielle Fincham, and Giuliana Mazzoni conducted a three-stage
SONG: “Inside the Box.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “CEOs and the Candle Problem”, Nature,… Read the rest “SONG: “Inside the Box””
Nature blogger Graham Morehead isn’t looking over any new research with this post, which makes it all the more remarkable. Since the early 1960s, we’ve known that offering… Read the rest “About those CEO bonuses: How financial incentives make us less creative.”
PLoS ONE presents research on music and words, showing that, no matter what language you use, speaking an emotion uses the same sounds as playing an emotion:
… Read the rest “Language is the music of emotion.”In Western music, the major mode
Forbes takes us one step closer to the Facebook-dominated society with a Northern Illinois University study that finds a quick social media review works better than standard employment… Read the rest “Facebook more efficient than IQ tests at determining employability. (Yeah, HR will be reading your updates.)”
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