Perception of musical pitch varies across cultures
How people interpret musical notes depends on the types of music they have listened to, researchers findCredit: Josh McDermott CAMBRIDGE, ...
Tag: Perception/Awareness
Slower growth in working memory linked to teen driving crashes
Credit: Copyright 2019 Walshe EA et al., JAMA Network Open Research into why adolescent drivers are involved in motor vehicle ...
New research has potential for ‘unpacking’ complex simultaneous emotions in adolescence
Shows for the first time that complex, mixed simultaneous emotions in adolescents could be assessed using an Analogue Emotion Scale ...
Hit your head, lose your sense of smell
It's long been known that people who suffer a major concussion can lose their sense of smell temporarily and also ...
Emotion-detection applications built on outdated science, report warns
Facial movements are unreliable signals of emotion, researchers say Software that purportedly reads emotions in faces is being deployed or ...
VR lullaby machine shown to induce tranquil pre-sleep states
Artists and technologists have joined forces to create Inter-Dream, an immersive VR experience that can ease you into the right ...
Rutgers collaborates with WHO to more accurately describe mental health disorders
The first-of-its-kind study asked people with mental health disorders to recommend changes to international diagnostic guidelines A Rutgers University researcher ...
The brain’s pathways to imagination may hold the key to altruistic behavior
When we see people in trouble, we also imagine how we can help before we act, Boston College researchers find ...
Between 16 and 18% of preadolescents have ideas of suicide
Depressive symptoms, anxiety and compulsive obsessive disorder are the main risk factors, according to a study by Universitat Rovira i ...
How sounds, shapes, speech and body movements convey emotion through one shared property
Credit: Graphic compiled by Beau Sievers. (Figure 5 from the paper). Death metal band logos often have a spiky look ...
Tweeting while watching TV diminishes enjoyment
Live-tweeting has potential pitfalls on audience experience Toggling between viewing entertainment and social media lessens a person's ability to escape ...
Why are we able to see moving objects against moving backgrounds?
Credit: University of Rochester, Duje Tadin, first author Visual motion is an important source of information for separating objects from ...
Brain structure determines individual differences regarding music sensitivity
Pleasure with musicCredit: Journal of Neuroscience The white matter structure in the brain reflects music sensitivity, according to a study ...
‘Mystical’ psychedelic compound found in normal brains
A study in rats has revealed the presence of naturally occurring DMT, an increasingly popular hallucinogen In the past few ...