For decades, psychology departments worldwide have studied human behavior in darkened laboratories that restrict natural movements, such as walking. Our new study, published in Nature Communications, challenges the wisdom of this approach. Using virtual reality (VR), we have revealed previously hidden aspects of perception that occur during a simple everyday action — walking. We found ...
There’s no shortage of apps and technology that claim to shift the brain into a “theta” state of brain activity — said to help with relaxation, inward focus and sleep. But what exactly does it mean to change one’s “mental state”? And is that even possible? For now, the evidence remains murky. But our understanding ...
Octopuses are not only wonderfully strange, but they are also intellectually fascinating. These boneless, shape-morphing, and color-changing creatures have fascinating features such as three hearts, pulsating veins, ink sacs to ward off predators, and an elaborate brain. Researchers recently found yet another exciting thing about octopuses — they sleep, and maybe even dream, just like ...
People have been fascinated by dreams for eons. You’ve probably asked yourself, why do I dream? And do they have any biological functions? How we can generate images from a sleeping brain has also confounded philosophers and scientists for centuries. One of the problems facing research into dreams has constantly been gaining access to people’s ...
In a study of healthy volunteers, National Institutes of Health (NIH) researchers have mapped out the brain activity that flows when we learn a new skill, such as playing a new song on the piano, and discovered why taking short breaks from practice is a key to learning. In the study, NIH researchers determined the ...
Your brain responds differently when talking to a person from a different socioeconomic group than during a conversation with someone of a similar background, a novel new imaging study shows. While neuroscientists have used brain imaging scans to track in great detail the neural responses of individuals to a host of factors such as stress, ...
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