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Psychologists used music to manipulate emotions of volunteers and found the dynamics of their emotions molded otherwise neutral experiences into memorable events. The tug of war between integrating memories and…
An extremely supportive atmosphere for new ideas laid the foundation for an 'Aha moment' about a toggle-switch in the fruit fly brain. Do humans have one, too?
Music can take on many forms in cultures across the globe, but researchers have found in a new study that some themes are universally recognizable by people everywhere with one notable exception -- love songs.
The human memory system is seated in the medial temporal lobe (MTL). Broadly, it contains the hippocampus, parahippocampal cortex ...
Unlike previously thought, it turns out that speech production and singing are supported by the same circuitry in the brain. Observations in a new study can help develop increasingly effective rehabilitation methods for…
Study findings suggest that even babies feel the impact of being at a live show, through both musicians' interactions with an audience and the social experience of being in a crowd.
Silence might not be deafening but it's something that literally can be heard, concludes a team of philosophers and psychologists who used auditory illusions to reveal how moments of silence distort people's perception…
There is no Planet B. Source: Markus Spiske/Pexels What is your experience of the recent heatwaves scorching Western Europe, the ...
The first author of the study, Jacob Bellmund, explains, “When estimating the approximate time of a call, we’re guided by ...
KAIST announced on the 17th that it has established the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Graduate School of ...
Artificial Intelligence and cognitive science are very much interrelated. AI was first coined in a proposal for a workshop that ...
Many people have made negative experiences in their lives that they would prefer not to remember. However, there are sometimes ...
Each of us carries around the most powerful machine on earth in our heads. Our brain is capable of building monuments that ...
The effect varies for different people. Take a moment and look at this. Some people don’t see anything special: just a blue iris in a red eye. For me though, there is an incredibly strong depth illusion – the blue and…
Why and how can conscious perception emerge from the brain – from a mere collection of interconnected neurons? This question ...
I am a psychologist who has worked with police in the areas of applied research and consultancy for more than two decades now ...
Most liberal arts colleges have psychology, computer science and philosophy majors. Few, however, have cognitive and brain ...
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Personality tests tend to follow a simple formula: rate yourself on a series of statements such as “I feed off of the energy of ...
Oliver Selfridge was an early pioneer of artificial intelligence, and in 1959 wrote a classic paper outlining a system by which simple units, each carrying out a specialised function, could be connected together to…
Consciousness is what allows you to think, remember, and feel things. The term can refer to someone's actual experience of the ...
The Guardian recently published an article saying “People won’t get ‘tired’ of social distancing – and it’s unscientific to suggest otherwise”. “Behavioural fatigue” the piece said, “has no basis in science”…
Most people are interested in memory, especially if they are reminiscing about the past or if they know someone suffering from ...
A project I’ve been working on a for a long time has just launched: The Choice Engine is an interactive essay about the psychology, neuroscience and philosophy of free will. To begin, follow and reply START…
This thread started by Ekaterina Damer has prompted many recommendations from psychologists on twitter. Can anyone recommend an (ideally brief) introductory paper or post or book explaining what makes for a good theory…
Open science essentials in 2 minutes, part 4 Before a research article is published in a journal you can make it freely available for anyone to read. You could do this on your own website, but you can also do it on a…
I have a guest post for the Research Digest, snappily titled ‘People who think their opinions are superior to others are most prone to overestimating their relevant knowledge and ignoring chances to learn more‘. The…
I have a review of John Bargh’s new book “Before You Know It: The Unconscious Reasons We Do What We Do” in this month’s Psychologist magazine. You can read the review in print (or online here) but the magazine could only…
Psychologists have been measuring reaction times since before psychology existed, and they are still a staple of cognitive psychology experiments today. Typically psychologists look for a difference in the time it takes…
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