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Illusion Reveals that Human Brain Fills in Peripheral Vision

An example of the uniformity illusion with blurriness. Image credit: Marte Otten et al, doi: 10.1177/0956797616672270.
Dec 14, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new study, what we see in the periphery, just outside the direct focus of the eye, may sometimes be a visual illusion. Four examples of the uniformity illusion with — clockwise from top left — blurriness, color, density, and size. In these examples, the periphery is, respectively, blurrier, greener, less dense, or contains larger circles than the center. However, if you fixate the center of the image for a prolonged period...

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According to Alan Scoboria et al, many people are prone to remembering events that never happened. Image credit: Geralt.

Researchers: Half of People Believe Fake Facts

Dec 8, 2016 by News Staff

Around 50% of us are susceptible to believing we’ve experienced fictitious events, according to an international team of researchers led by Dr. Alan...

Reduction in sensitivity to dishonesty over time. Image credit: Neil Garrett et al.

Study Examines How Human Brain Adapts to Self-Serving Dishonesty

Oct 25, 2016 by News Staff

A study led by University College London researchers Neil Garrett and Tali Sharot provides the first empirical evidence that self-serving lies gradually...

Damian Scarf et al. demonstrate that pigeons (Columba livia) trained to discriminate words from non-words picked up on the orthographic properties that define words and used this knowledge to identify words they had never seen before. Image credit: Damian Scarf / University of Otago.

Study: Pigeons Can Learn to Visually Recognize Words

Sep 18, 2016 by News Staff

Pigeons (Columba livia) can learn to distinguish real words from non-words by visually processing their letter combinations, according to a surprising...

Group work can harm memory, researchers say.

Study Shows Group Work Can Harm Memory

Sep 13, 2016 by News Staff

A new study published in the Psychological Bulletin reveals that collaborating in a group to remember information is harmful. Group work can harm memory,...

An ‘out of body experience’ could help people suffering from chronic pain.

‘Out of Body Experience’ Can Tackle Chronic Pain, Research Shows

Aug 11, 2016 by News Staff

A new study published in the European Journal of Pain shows that inducing a virtual ‘out of body experience’ can significantly reduce the intensity...

Spirit of New Zealand under sail. Image credit: University of Otago / Spirit of Adventure Trust.

Building Resilience in Teenagers through Outdoor Education

Jul 26, 2016 by News Staff

New research led by University of Otago researchers Damian Scarf and John Hunter shows that teenagers who go on a sea voyage display significant long-term...

Apologies can help improve the feelings of someone hurt. Image credit: Andrew Yee / CC BY.

Should Parents Ask Their Children to Apologize?

Jul 9, 2016 by Craig Smith, University of Michigan

Apologies can help improve the feelings of someone hurt. Image credit: Andrew Yee / CC BY. Have you ever felt deserving of an apology and been upset when...

The new study points to stress as a possible antecedent of belief in conspiracy theories. Image credit: Photovision.

Study Finds Link between Stress and Conspiracy Theories

May 16, 2016 by News Staff

A new study led by Anglia Ruskin University researcher Prof. Viren Swami shows that people who believe in conspiracy theories (420 U.S. adults were sampled)...

Babies are able to learn abstract relations before the first year of life. Image credit: Kang Heungbo.

Infants Need Free Tongue Movement to Distinguish Speech Sounds, Say Scientists

Oct 13, 2015 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Dr Alison Bruderer, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia, has discovered a direct link between tongue...

Scientists say the human color perception changes between seasons. Image credit: BenHur / Nova / Jongleur100 / SpaceJ / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Research Sheds New Light on How We Process Color

Aug 7, 2015 by News Staff

A new study led by Lauren Welbourne from the University of York, UK, has revealed that humans see things differently in summer compared with winter. Scientists...

The new study has shown that men, on average, are more narcissistic than women. Narcissus by Caravaggio. Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Rome.

Men are More Narcissistic than Women, Psychologists Say

Mar 4, 2015 by News Staff

With 31 years of data from more than 475,000 participants, a new study published in the journal Psychological Bulletin supports the widely held belief...

Windbeeches on the Schauinsland in Germany. Image credit: Richard Fabi.

Feeling Cold is Contagious, New Research Finds

Feb 21, 2015 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Neil Harrison of the University of Sussex, UK, humans are susceptible to the so-called temperature contagion. Windbeeches...

The study sheds new light on the link between sleep deprivation and obesity. Image credit: Sweet Briar College.

Late Evenings Linked to Repetitive Negative Thoughts in New Study

Dec 8, 2014 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Cognitive Therapy and Research has found that people who sleep for shorter periods of time and go to bed very late...

The study sheds new light on the link between sleep deprivation and obesity. Image credit: Sweet Briar College.

New Study Analyzes Content of Nightmares, Bad Dreams

May 6, 2014 by News Staff

An analysis of 253 nightmares and 431 bad dreams conducted by Canadian psychology researchers shows that nightmares have greater emotional impact than...

On each experimental trial, the Generative Face Grammar platform randomly selected from a total of 41 a subset of action units and values specifying their temporal parameters, represented as color-coded curves. The dynamic action units were then combined to produce a 3D facial animation, illustrated here with four snapshots and corresponding color-coded temporal parameter curves. Naive observers categorized the random facial animation according to six emotions plus don’t know if the movements correlated with their subjective perceptual expectations of that emotion - here, fear. Each observer categorized a total of 2,400 random facial animations displayed on same-race faces of both sexes. Image credit: adapted from Rachael E. Jack et al, 2014.

Only Four Basic Emotions Exist, Researchers Say

Feb 3, 2014 by News Staff

According to scientists from the University of Glasgow’s Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, there are only four basic emotions that we all experience. On...

A dried flowered bud of the Cannabis sativa plant (CC BY 2.5).

Dutch Study: Regular Consumption of Cannabis May Trigger Impulsive Behavior

Oct 29, 2013 by News Staff

A new study conducted in the Netherlands has shown that heavy cannabis users, who had a history of cocaine use, have increased levels of impulsive behavior. A...

Men walk at a slower pace to match the females' paces only when the female is their romantic partner. Image credit: Virginia Commonwealth University.

Males Walk Slower when Walking with Female Romantic Partner

Oct 24, 2013 by News Staff

Men tend to slow down by about 7 percent when walking with romantic partners, says a team of scientists from Seattle Pacific University, the United States. Men...

Escrava Isaura, a 2004 Brazilian telenovela. Image credit: Sérgio Savarese / CC BY 2.0.

New Study Shows What Makes Latin American Telenovelas so Popular

Oct 15, 2013 by News Staff

According to a new study led by Dr Tom van Laer from ESCP Europe Business School, a particular type of consumer enjoys stories with plots, characters,...

Waiting Room - Employment Office by Theresa Bernstein, 1917, oil on canvas. Image credit: The Jewish Museum, New York.

Waiting Makes Us More Patient, New Study Suggests

Oct 2, 2013 by News Staff

Waiting actually does make people more patient, which can provide a payoff for consumers by helping them make better decisions, according to Dr Ayelet...

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