Dementia is associated with an impaired self-perception with potentially harmful consequences for health status and clinical risk classification in this […]
Sweet-taste perception changes as children develop
Compared with adults, children and adolescents are less sensitive to the sweet taste and need 40% more sucrose in a […]
Vision scientists disprove 60-year-old perception theory
Vision researchers at York University have disproved a long-standing theory of how the human vision system processes images, using computational […]
As light as a lemon: How the right smell can help with a negative body image
The scent of a lemon could help people feel better about their body image, new findings from University of Sussex […]
Employees less upset at being replaced by robots than by other people: Study assesses psychological impact of job losses through technology
Generally speaking, most people find the idea of workers being replaced by robots or software worse than if the jobs […]
Pupillary response to glare illusions of different colors: A blue glare illusion was perceived to be brightest and caused larger pupil constriction
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology formed a research team with the University of […]
Researchers study the neurochemistry of social perception
Cues signaling trust and dominance are crucial for social life. Recent research from Dr. Dan Krawczyk’s lab at the Center […]
What the brains of people with excellent general knowledge look like: Some people seem to have an answer to every general knowledge question; why?
The brains of people with excellent general knowledge are particularly efficiently wired. This was shown by neuroscientists at Ruhr-Universität Bochum […]
How mammals’ brains evolved to distinguish odors is nothing to sniff at: Study finds that the relationship of ‘distributed circuit’ components scales across species
The world is filled with millions upon millions of distinct smells, but how mammals’ brains evolved to tell them apart […]
Deciphering how the brain encodes color and shape: Study reveals how the brain processes the external world using overlapping visual circuits
There are hundreds of thousands of distinct colors and shapes that a person can distinguish visually, but how does the […]