Tagged neuroscience

Young children literally see words and faces differently than adults do, according to new research. Where adults can most easily comprehend a word when they look at it straight on, children need to look a...

The Morris Water Maze (MWM) is practically synonymous with place cells, the spatially-tuned neurons of the hippocampus believed to be central to spatial navigation. Place cells fire preferentially when animals...

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one most adaptable to Change” – Charles Darwin The vast majority of us are exposed to an event...

The opening scene of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” asks this question, a very deep question, one that doesn’t have an answer, still in the seventh movie. Which side would you choose? I know that...

I used to find the word moist nauseating to hear and even worse to utter—I hate it for what seemed like no reason. When I started telling people how much I hated the word, I was surprised to find that others...

Few memories from my first course in cognitive psychology have stuck with me over time. There was the time the time the professor was appalled when he learned how many drinks the young fraternity member who...

Recently, in response Johann Hari’s article on drug addiction for the Huffington Post, my friend and I got into a discussion about how scientists choose specific research methods in addictive disorders. The...