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 ...
The human brain is made up of around 86 billion neurons, linked by trillions of connections. For decades, scientists have believed that we need to map this intricate connectivity in detail to understand how the structured patterns of activity defining our thoughts, feelings, and behavior emerge. Our new study, published in Nature, challenges this view. ...
Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which is published in The Journal of Neuroscience, we enrolled 163 children at either six months of age or 30 months of age. The children wore a small audio recorder in a specially made ...
According to the findings of a new Yale University study, it seems mammals dream about the world even before their birth. Mammals, at the time of birth, can understand the visual information they receive from the world around them to an extent. It seems rather amazing given the fact that such an animal is witnessing ...
What feels like up may actually be some other direction depending on how your brain processes your orientation, according to psychology researchers at York University’s Faculty of Health. In a new study published in PLoS One, researchers at York University’s Centre for Vision Research found that an individual’s interpretation of the direction of gravity can be altered by ...
The intelligence of a person is said to be influenced by several factors, like heredity, age, race, childhood nutrition, and so on. However, there is one significant factor that determines the how intelligent an individual is — the culture of the society into which they are born and raised. In this regard, being born in ...
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