Stress is contagious. Observing another person in a stressful situation can be enough to make our own bodies release the...

The only linguistic data available for Carabayo, a language spoken by an indigenous group that lives in voluntary isolation, is...

Adolescents with antisocial personality disorder inflict serious physical and psychological harm on both themselves and others. However, little is yet...

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and other research facilities have contributed significantly towards...

The origin of human music has long been the subject of intense discussion between philosophers, cultural scientists and naturalists.

Video gaming causes increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as...

Egoism and narcissism appear to be on the rise in our society, while empathy is on the decline. And yet,...

Hungry people are often difficult to deal with. A good meal can affect more than our mood, it can also...

Animals which maintain cooperative relationships show gains in longevity and offspring survival.

It is not always wise to form an alliance while in a conflict or at war, especially when there is...

The ways people respond to conditions of reduced visibility is a central topic in vision research.

New research examining auditory mechanisms of language learning in babies has revealed that infants as young as three months of...

Researchers have found out that chimpanzees are not only capable of learning from one another, but also use this social...

Henry Evrard, neuroanatomist at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, now discovered that the VEN occurs...

Klaus Armin and his research group from the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Gottingen have now discovered a...