Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
'...background music disturbs the reading process, has some small detrimental effects on memory, but has a positive impact on emotional reactions and improves achievements in sports.' A meta-analysis of the effect of background music on adult listeners.
'Embarrassed participants' fixated proportionally more on the eyes than controls and also fixated proportionally less on other less emotionally informative areas of the face ...' A study of where we look when we're embarrassed.
The reach and effectiveness of an outreach programme intended to help those traumatised by the terrorist bombings in London in 2005.
What parents want in a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law across 67 pre-industrial societies.
One Woman’s Near Destruction and Reemergence From Psychiatric Assault: The Inspiring Story of Evelyn Scogin.
'Intriguingly, images of “built” environments containing water were generally rated just as positively as natural “green” space ...' How the presence of water affects our judgment of built and natural scenes.
A multi-faceted study of the development of relational reasoning (the ability to compare objects simultaneously across multiple dimensions) during adolescence, incorporating behavioural data with functional and structural brain imaging [pdf].
Differences in resting brain activity between men and women.
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: More clues to successful ageing from the study of "super-agers" (previous Digest post on Super-Agers). Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? Being men with eating...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: How and why people get lost in buildings. The sound of music makes time fly. Do monkeys think in metaphors? East Asians and Westerners responded differently to the news of the Swine Flu outbreak...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Non-patients who hear voices. A light touch on the thigh boosts the handstand balance of gymnasts. American participants assign positive words and negative words to themselves in a 60:40 positively...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Many of us misunderstand mirrors. How to Gain Eleven IQ Points in Ten Minutes: Thinking Aloud Improves Raven's Matrices Performance in Older Adults. Well-Being Is Related to Having Less Small...
- Eyes Closed Shut, Mind Wide Open
There always seems to be a story in the news about the latest findings showing this or that brain area is activated when someone’s jealous, embarrassed or solving a crossword. But activated relative to what resting baseline? After all, unless you’re...
Neuroscience
Extras
'...background music disturbs the reading process, has some small detrimental effects on memory, but has a positive impact on emotional reactions and improves achievements in sports.' A meta-analysis of the effect of background music on adult listeners.
'Embarrassed participants' fixated proportionally more on the eyes than controls and also fixated proportionally less on other less emotionally informative areas of the face ...' A study of where we look when we're embarrassed.
The reach and effectiveness of an outreach programme intended to help those traumatised by the terrorist bombings in London in 2005.
What parents want in a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law across 67 pre-industrial societies.
One Woman’s Near Destruction and Reemergence From Psychiatric Assault: The Inspiring Story of Evelyn Scogin.
'Intriguingly, images of “built” environments containing water were generally rated just as positively as natural “green” space ...' How the presence of water affects our judgment of built and natural scenes.
A multi-faceted study of the development of relational reasoning (the ability to compare objects simultaneously across multiple dimensions) during adolescence, incorporating behavioural data with functional and structural brain imaging [pdf].
Differences in resting brain activity between men and women.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: More clues to successful ageing from the study of "super-agers" (previous Digest post on Super-Agers). Does Posting Facebook Status Updates Increase or Decrease Loneliness? Being men with eating...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: How and why people get lost in buildings. The sound of music makes time fly. Do monkeys think in metaphors? East Asians and Westerners responded differently to the news of the Swine Flu outbreak...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Non-patients who hear voices. A light touch on the thigh boosts the handstand balance of gymnasts. American participants assign positive words and negative words to themselves in a 60:40 positively...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Many of us misunderstand mirrors. How to Gain Eleven IQ Points in Ten Minutes: Thinking Aloud Improves Raven's Matrices Performance in Older Adults. Well-Being Is Related to Having Less Small...
- Eyes Closed Shut, Mind Wide Open
There always seems to be a story in the news about the latest findings showing this or that brain area is activated when someone’s jealous, embarrassed or solving a crossword. But activated relative to what resting baseline? After all, unless you’re...