Neuroscience
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:
Cross-cultural differences in the way people in USA, UK and Malaysia view intelligence.
When people of Christian faith think about themselves, a different pattern of activity is observed in their brains compared with when non-religious people think about themselves.
Why do so many parachutists fail to pull the handle of their reserve chute? Is it because parachuting affects working memory?
A round up of all we currently know about synaesthesia.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Brain scanning unborn babies to investigate the origins of hemispheric lateralisation. Media use by people with and without depression. Children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits their...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women's brains change in size across the menstrual cycle. Do positive children become positive adults? Reminders of death lead people to want to name their children after themselves. 10- to...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Scanning the brains of anorexia patients while they view their own bodies and other people's. Their neural activity is regular when they look at other people's bodies, but unusual when they...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Are capacity bottlenecks in the brain's information processing pathways, at the heart of many mental conditions and disorders? Differences between monkey and human mirror-neuron systems. Ageing...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: What might happen if psychologists revealed their religious faith to clients. Cephalopod molluscs are conscious, don't you know. (See earlier). How terror increases the appeal of controversial,...
Neuroscience
Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut:Cross-cultural differences in the way people in USA, UK and Malaysia view intelligence.
When people of Christian faith think about themselves, a different pattern of activity is observed in their brains compared with when non-religious people think about themselves.
Why do so many parachutists fail to pull the handle of their reserve chute? Is it because parachuting affects working memory?
A round up of all we currently know about synaesthesia.
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Brain scanning unborn babies to investigate the origins of hemispheric lateralisation. Media use by people with and without depression. Children’s belief in an invisible person inhibits their...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Women's brains change in size across the menstrual cycle. Do positive children become positive adults? Reminders of death lead people to want to name their children after themselves. 10- to...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Scanning the brains of anorexia patients while they view their own bodies and other people's. Their neural activity is regular when they look at other people's bodies, but unusual when they...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: Are capacity bottlenecks in the brain's information processing pathways, at the heart of many mental conditions and disorders? Differences between monkey and human mirror-neuron systems. Ageing...
- Extras
Eye-catching studies that didn't make the final cut: What might happen if psychologists revealed their religious faith to clients. Cephalopod molluscs are conscious, don't you know. (See earlier). How terror increases the appeal of controversial,...