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Where is Waldo? Whether we’re searching for Waldo or our keys in a room of clutter, we tap into a part of the frontal region of the brain when performing visual, goal-related tasks. Some of us do it well, whereas for others it’s a bit challenging. One West Virginia University researcher set out to investigate why, and what specifically this […]
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Hand movements (and not especially lip movements, as is often thought) are the best way to recognise language in noisy situations. The best solution is a combination of lip and hand movements. This is the conclusion of a study by cognitive neuroscientist Linda Drijvers from Radboud University and the Max Planck Institute. It is the topic of her PhD degree […]
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Singer Pink Opens a New Window. has always been a proponent of everyone speaking their minds Opens a New Window. — and she wants the world to know that’s especially true for conversations about mental health, depression, anxiety and suicide. “I’m hopeful that the taboo of it is all going away, because more and more people are talking about it,” […]
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Last night’s episode of ABC’s Catalyst, “The Mindfulness Experiment”, offered a unique glimpse into what happens to people during Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, an eight-week structured training program in mindfulness meditation. The program followed 15 ordinary Australians who were seeking to deal with conditions including chronic pain, stress and anxiety. At the end of the experiment, many of the participants […]
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Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame for people ignoring simple solutions to statistical problems, making them hard to solve. This can have serious consequences when applied to professional settings like court cases. Published in Frontiers in Psychology, the study shows for the first time that fixed mindsets—potentially triggered by suboptimal education curricula—lead to […]
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Every smell, from a rose to a smoky fire to a pungent fish, is composed of a mixture of odorant molecules that bind to protein receptors inside your nose. But scientists have struggled to understand exactly what makes each combination of odorant molecules smell the way it does or predict from its structure whether a molecule is pleasant, noxious or […]
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Cancer therapies that target a specific protein have improved outcomes for patients. However, many patients eventually develop resistance to these targeted therapies and their cancer comes back. It is believed that differences among tumor cells, or heterogeneity, may contribute to this drug resistance. Moffitt Cancer Center researchers are using a unique approach by combining typical cell culture studies with mathematical […]
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