Musical Note Perception Can Depend on Culture
Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note, an octave higher. The Tsimane’, an indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon basin, do not.
Do Narcissists Ever Grow Up?
New research investigates continuity and change in narcissism from young adulthood to midlife
A Simple Test Predicts What Kindergartners Will Earn as Adults
Psychologists zero in on the skills that predict future success
Cultivating Emotion Regulation and Mental Health
Susanne Schweizer is a neuroscientist investigating the development of emotional regulatory processes and their role in mental health across the life span
How Do You Know Which Emotion a Facial Expression Represents?
A group of researchers has created a short test to see just how misleading the look on a person’s face can be
Eavesdropping Puts Anxious Squirrels at Ease
Squirrels constantly scan their surroundings for hawks, owls and other predators. But they also surveil for threats by eavesdropping on bird chatter. Christopher Intagliata reports.
Which Weighs More, a Pound of Stone or a Pound of Styrofoam?
It’s not a trick question: your brain answers differently, depending on whether the materials are part of the same object or not
Studying the Superhuman
An examination of sixth fingers hints at what our body—and mind—is capable of
The History of Opium, Facing Up to Quantum Mechanics and Other New Science Books
Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
Toward a Positive Evolutionary Psychology
A new book integrates positive psychology and evolutionary psychology to help advance the human condition
Lab-Grown “Mini Brains” Can Now Mimic the Neural Activity of a Preterm Infant
The so-called organoids are not capable of complex thought but could be used to study neurological diseases
A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created
The growing science of memory manipulation raises social and ethical questions