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Time perception and drummers
An interesting piece in the New Yorker about Baylor neuroscientist David Eagleman, who is working to understand how the brain processes and experiences time. In one of his experiments, he collaborates...
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Neurocognitive disorder may cause problems with math
Researchers at the University of Minnesota say that dyscalulia affects roughly the same number of people as dyslexia.
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Psychology of power
Wired reports on several psychological studies that show how those who attain positions of authority become more likely to lie and cheat, and come to have less empathy for those without power.
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The psychology of false memories
Interesting blog post from Neurobonkers.com, describing a study on how advertising (and psychology researchers) can create false memories.
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Spoiler alert
Wired reports on research done at UC San Diego indicating that knowing the ending to a page-turner or suspenseful movie doesn’t necessarily detract from the experience.
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The evolutionary/adaptive value of adolescence
An interesting article in the National Geographic about how adolescent traits such as risk-taking and preference for the company of peers are reflected in the development of their brains. And that...
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Economic inequality and neuroscience
Wired describes neuroscience research showing that under certain circumstances humans are made unhappy by perceived economic inequality.
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Google rewiring how we remember
The upshot is that we tend to forget things that we know we can easily find on the Internet. Google becomes a kind of external memory cache.
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Heritability of neuropsychological disorders and intellectual orientation
This study in PLoS ONE shows that depression, bipolar, and substance abuse are correlated with interest in the humanities in families, while interest in STEM fields is correlated with autism spectrum...
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Neuroscience and out of body experiences
Derek Beres asks why we crave out of body experiences, and what research is telling us about the neuroscience behind them.
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