Brain network of psychopathic criminal functions differently
A strong focus on reward combined with a lack of self-control appears to be linked to the tendency to commit...
Read moreDetailsA strong focus on reward combined with a lack of self-control appears to be linked to the tendency to commit...
Read moreDetailsPathological gamblers have a stronger brain reaction to so-called near-miss events: losing events that come very close to a win....
Read moreDetailsWhat makes some words easier to learn than others? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University...
Read moreDetailsNeuroscientists from Radboud University’s Donders Institute have shown that memories of the same events co-exist at different resolutions in the...
Read moreDetailsThe activity of the emotion centres in the brain – the amygdalae – is influenced by motivation rather than by...
Read moreDetailsYou do math in your head most of the time, but you can also teach your body how to do...
Read moreDetailsBy predicting our eye movements, our brain creates a stable world for us. Researchers used to think that those predictions...
Read moreDetailsYour measured brain signals can reveal whether you are thinking about an animal or a tool. That’s what neuroscientist Irina...
Read moreDetailsLeft-handed people really do have different brains and genes from right-handed people. Yet left-handed people are almost never included as...
Read moreDetailsResearchers at the Donders Institute in Nijmegen have demonstrated for the first time that the amount of dopamine in the...
Read moreDetailsInitial evidence is found that the brain has a ‘tuning knob’ that is actually influencing behaviour. Brain circuits can tune...
Read moreDetailsIt is widely believed that people are bad at naming odours. This has led researchers to suggest smell representations are...
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