Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Dogs recognise unfairness.
People are influenced by the dreams they have.
We reveal our socio-economic background in the way we interact with others - participants from more affluent backgrounds showed more signs of disengagement, such as doodling, and fewer signs of engagement, such as head-nodding, than did participants from more modest backgrounds.
Psychopaths get released earlier than other offenders with similar records, perhaps because of their ability to manipulate parole boards.
Eating less could help boost the memory powers of older people.
A sniff and a whiff: 50 years of pheromone research.
Maybe Scrooge had a point: apparently giving money to others is associated with the onset of major depression!
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: How many neurons do you REALLY have? Some dogmas of quantitative neuroscience. Smiley faces are perceived to be brighter, literally. Don't tell Sarkozy - people in power overestimate their own...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Our dreams lose their colour as we get older. (see earlier item on the Digest). Infant whining is uniquely distracting, even more than machine noise (pdf). For Fun, Love, or Money: What Drives...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: How much should recycling signs acknowledge the inconvenience of recycling? Amount of attendance at religious ceremonies, but not regular prayer, is associated with people expressing greater support...
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Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: This sounds familiar: a memory-based account of deja vu (pdf). The kind of streets older people like to walk down. Examining why we remember so much more from adolescence and early adulthood than...
- Do Animals Predict Earthquakes?
Possibly, argues Matt Kaplan in the Feb. 17 issue of New Scientist magazine. "The idea that animals can predict earthquakes has ancient origins. Way back in 373 BC the Greek historian Thucydides recorded descriptions of rats, dogs, snakes and weasels...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:Dogs recognise unfairness.
People are influenced by the dreams they have.
We reveal our socio-economic background in the way we interact with others - participants from more affluent backgrounds showed more signs of disengagement, such as doodling, and fewer signs of engagement, such as head-nodding, than did participants from more modest backgrounds.
Psychopaths get released earlier than other offenders with similar records, perhaps because of their ability to manipulate parole boards.
Eating less could help boost the memory powers of older people.
A sniff and a whiff: 50 years of pheromone research.
Maybe Scrooge had a point: apparently giving money to others is associated with the onset of major depression!
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: How many neurons do you REALLY have? Some dogmas of quantitative neuroscience. Smiley faces are perceived to be brighter, literally. Don't tell Sarkozy - people in power overestimate their own...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Our dreams lose their colour as we get older. (see earlier item on the Digest). Infant whining is uniquely distracting, even more than machine noise (pdf). For Fun, Love, or Money: What Drives...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: How much should recycling signs acknowledge the inconvenience of recycling? Amount of attendance at religious ceremonies, but not regular prayer, is associated with people expressing greater support...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: This sounds familiar: a memory-based account of deja vu (pdf). The kind of streets older people like to walk down. Examining why we remember so much more from adolescence and early adulthood than...
- Do Animals Predict Earthquakes?
Possibly, argues Matt Kaplan in the Feb. 17 issue of New Scientist magazine. "The idea that animals can predict earthquakes has ancient origins. Way back in 373 BC the Greek historian Thucydides recorded descriptions of rats, dogs, snakes and weasels...