Is porn bad for the brain? The Savvy Psychologist explains 3 studies that looked at how we process porn and other sexualized images, and reveals the potential effects on the brain—and on how we see our fellow men and women...
Both hemispheres are involved in the brains of people interpreting a whistled variant of Turkish, compared with a left hemisphere dominance when listeners hear the spoken language ...
Salvador Dalí always thought of himself as a replacement for his older brother, who had died before the famous painter was born. Dalí’s theory is strengthened by the fact that his older brother had also been named Salvador...
The largest invertebrate genetic code unleashes clues to camouflage, suckers, evolution
A long lost painting called "La Bella Principessa" reveals the earliest known use of his famous enigmatic smile technique from before the Mona Lisa was painted. The master seemed to intuit that the visual system is blurred in the periphery, and used the illusion to heightened effect in his art...
Despite the hype, when science meets commerce, objectivity is often the loser
Expert Athletes May Perform Worse After Watching Novice Actions
Studying related skills or concepts in parallel is a surprisingly effective way to train your brain
Animal communication studies have shown only fixed vocalizations, such as alarm cries. But Bonobo chimps appear to have a call that has different meanings in different contexts ...
Although several therapies have shown some success in helping people exposed to traumatic experiences, not everyone recovers equally well
High-level brain areas accumulated far more changes in lipids than the brains of chimpanzees
If you seek high well-being, your best bets are gratitude and love of learning.
A brain circuit has been found that allows us to forget fear and anxiety
Telltale differences in the brain and immune system before deployment may predict which soldiers are most likely to succumb later on
An analysis of the acoustical characteristics of screams found that the sounds are unusually rough, that is, they rapidly change in frequency, which has an alarming effect on the listener's brain ...
The second-most common form of dementia has been difficult to study without a better understanding of early symptoms
Jackhammers, concerts and other common noisemakers may cause irreparable damage to our ears in unexpected ways
The Thatcher illusion, discovered 35 years ago by vision scientist Peter Thompson of the University of York in the UK, was essential to current knowledge of face perception. Scientists already knew that faces were difficult to recognize upside down, but the Thatcher illusion went further to demonstrate that the brain does not merely process and store representations of whole faces, but it recognizes isolated facial features such as the mouth and eyes. ...
Experiment compares the way monkey and human brains respond to abstract information
Words are not encoded in the brain by their meaning but rather by simpler attributes such as sound and shape
