Can Current Technology Identify Liars?
by Nisha Cooch, PhD2
Identifying deception is something humans have attempted to do for centuries. Initial techniques, such as facial expression... READ MORE →
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A Woman’s Touch Unpacks a Punch
by Carla Clark, PhD“No sex during training!” This may sound familiar to those of you in competitive sports and even more so for professional... READ MORE →
Development of Alzheimer’s Disease – Is Tau Protein to Blame?
by Viatcheslav Wlassoff, PhDThanks to the progress of medicine, these days we live much longer than just few decades ago. However, we don’t become... READ MORE →
Exploring the Next Frontier – The Human Brain Project
by Daniel Albright, MA, PhD (c)Human exploration has long been concerned with travelling outward as far as possible — the edge of the continent, around... READ MORE →
The Placebo-Fooled Brain
by Sara Adaes, PhDEmotions, stress, depression, anxiety, fear, memory, learning, anticipation, and expectation; all these factors modulate... READ MORE →
False Memories on Trial – Embed, Manipulate, Delete
by Catherine Leona, BARecent successful efforts by neuroscientists to falsify, change, delete, and improve memories highlight how highly manipulable... READ MORE →
Supercomputer Simulates 1% of the Brain – What’s Next?
by Daniel Albright, MA, PhD (c)Neural networks are used in neuroscience to create models that could potentially explain some cognitive phenomena. For example,... READ MORE →
How Do We Think About Pitch?
by Daniel Albright, MA, PhD (c)In linguistic relativity research, there is quite a bit of literature on metaphors and how they affect our perceptions of... READ MORE →
Get Your Head in the Game
by Jennifer Gibson, PharmDFall means football among my family and friends. From local youth teams to collegiate programs to professional organizations,... READ MORE →
Top Brain, Bottom Brain, Part 3 – The Theory of Cognitive Modes
by G. Wayne Miller and Stephen M. Kosslyn, PhDContinued from Part 2.A side view of the brain reveals the top and bottom parts, which are demarcated largely by the Sylvian... READ MORE →
New ‘Brain Games’ Exclusive Preview – Times Square Mass Mind Reading
This Sunday February 14th (9 p.m. ET), the Emmy-nominated Brain Games tv-show is back! Wonder junkie Jason Silva returns to our screens, teaming up with... READ MORE →
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