Structural sexism: FSU researcher offers new perspective on gender and health inequality
Credit: (FSU Photo/Bruce Palmer) A Florida State University researcher has found gender inequality in U.S. states is bad for everybody's ...
Tag: Perception/Awareness
Seeing disfigured faces prompts negative brain and behavior responses
Penn brain imaging study finds negative implicit biases against individuals with scars, birthmarks and other facial differencesCredit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA--People ...
Hands that see, eyes that feel? Brain study reveals the mathematics of identifying objects
An international team of researchers demonstrates that our brain need only perform a few lightning-fast statistical calculations to detect key ...
Clinical trial assesses telephone-based care program for at-risk homebound elderly
Something as simple as a phone call could be a way to alert health care providers and caregivers that an ...
Do you hear what I hear?
Study suggests infants with autism risk may be less able to distinguish between familiar and unfamiliar speech patterns NEW YORK, ...
Marching for climate change may sway people’s beliefs and actions
Americans have a long tradition of taking to the streets to protest or to advocate for things they believe in. ...
Thoughts on body image in pregnancy important indicator of emotional wellbeing
Researchers have shown that a new way of assessing women's relationship with their bodies during pregnancy could help predict how ...
Infants later diagnosed with autism seldom initiate joint attention
Credit: David Naylor In typical development, both infants and their parents flexibly use verbal and non-verbal behaviors to establish frequent ...
Optical illusions reveal regular waves of brain activity enable visual feature integration
Credit: Images by Ryohei Nakayama Rhythmic waves of brain activity cause us to see or not see complex images that ...
Study identifies our ‘inner pickpocket’
Researchers have identified how the human brain is able to determine the properties of a particular object using purely statistical ...
Children describe technology that gives them a sense of ambiguity as ‘creepy’
Many parents express concerns about privacy and online safety in technology designed for their children. But we know much less ...
Novel scale correlates children’s snacking behaviors with external food cues
Dartmouth researchers develop and validate a brief, parent-reported scale to measure external food cue responsiveness and conditioned eating behaviors for ...
Implementing a care pathway for spatial neglect to improve stroke outcomes
Stroke researchers strive to close the implementation gap for spatial neglect careCredit: Kessler Foundation East Hanover, NJ. May 14, 2019. ...
Room for thought: Brain region that watches for walls identified
Advanced imaging technologies observe one brain area's ability to rapidly sense our surroundings; lays groundwork for improvements to machine learning ...