Synesthesia is a condition in which people senses become entangled, such that a person might see colours when listening to music or feel a certain sensation while tasting something. It's a really interesting phenomena, and people who have this ability often go a long time before realising it, as it ...
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The theory of sexual selection proposes that certain traits evolved due to the preference of the other gender. These preferences may evolve because the trait is an indicator or genetic fitness, for example through being related to better health. Random genetic mutations that lead an individual to better display this ...
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As with bilingualism, it's generally assumed that being an expert completely beneficial and has no downsides to performance. However we know that expertise tends to be domain specific, for example, chess grand masters can memorise chess boards far more quickly and easily that novices, but on standard cognitive tests tend ...
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The age-old advice is that it's what's on the inside, not what's on the outside that makes you attractive. Is that true? Virgin Zeigler-Hill and Erin Myers performed a number of studies to test this theory, but there was one in particular that I found intreresting. They showed 283 students photographs ...
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The Rosetta Stone people are making a killing through their concept of "natural" language learning. That is, their angle is that with their product, you supposedly learn a new language in the same way you learned your first, which allegedly makes the process easier. To accomplish this, they use pictures. So ...
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Imagine your kitchen floor is dirty. Since you don't want to clean it yourself you log in to a robot design website, tell them that you want a robot capable of cleaning your kitchen floor. They give you a quote, you pay, and then they email the design to you. ...
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Researchers at the University of Parody today published new findings on the effects of unimaginative neuroscience article titles on anxiety, depression, and the desire to throw shoes at your computer screen. The research was inspired by the fact that every single time -- EVERY SINGLE TIME -- a study involving brain ...
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I have experienced the second TV program that made me want to throw my shoes at the TV -- a broadcast of Prime Minister's Questions. In PMQ's, members of the opposition get to ask the PM questions about his party's policies and actions. Ostensibly the point of this is to reach ...
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My belief about the nature of reality is that the only "thing" that exists is matter. That is, there is no soul, no heaven and no hell. Effects aren't caused without an interaction with different pieces of matter, and consciousness exists within the confines of the physical head that gives ...
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A study in 2009 tested the effect of Tetris on memory consolidation. Forty participants were split into two groups. After watching a film showing traumatic stuff (surgery, people drowning etc), one group sat quietly while the other was told to play Tetris for 10 minutes. All participants kept a diary ...
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