Perception/Awareness

Credit: University of Cambridge A short online game designed to fight conspiracies about COVID-19 boosts people's confidence in detecting misinformation by increasing their ability to perceive its "manipulativeness"…

New study explores children's perception of their own wellbeing using artCredit: Anglia Ruskin University Young children in deprived areas see nature and outdoor spaces as being associated with "happy places", according to a new study…

To make sense of complex environments, brain waves constantly adapt, compensating for drastically different sound and vision processing speeds Every high-school physics student learns that sound and light travel at very different speeds.…

Credit: Photo by Fred Zwicky CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- In a study with pandemic-related implications, researchers report that strangers who consume alcohol together may keep their distance initially - but draw physically closer as they become…

Researchers introduce new factor to explain stress while drivingCredit: University of Houston Admit it: Daily commutes - those stops, the starts, all that stress - gets on your last nerve. Or is that just me? It might be,…

The study says differences in children's brains, which affect their sensitivity to pressure and rewards, and differences in the way they process information, make it more likely they will admit to crimes they didn't commit when…

Credit: Pixabay/geralt Patients with compromised health conditions, such as multiple sclerosis, are at enhanced risk of contracting COVID-19. Unfortunately, these patients are also hesitant to take the COVID-19 vaccine because of their…

Research uncovers patterns in the resting brains of highly sensitive people You know that raw overwhelm people have been reporting after months of a pandemic, compounded by economic issues and social unrest? Does fatigue and compulsive…

Study reveals how college-age women conceptualize violence in dating relationships and the role technology playsCredit: Alex Dolce, Florida Atlantic University Dating violence - physical, sexual, psychological or emotional within a…

A new study reveals the mechanisms that support our brain's ability to adapt the way it processes information in our environment Human decision-making depends on the flexible processing of complex information, but how the brain may adapt…

New poll shows 83% of people with depression agree life would be easier if others could understand their depressionCredit: GeneSight Mental Health Monitor In a new nationwide poll, the GeneSight® Mental Health Monitor found that 83% of…

What The Study Did: Researchers examined whether younger age at onset of type 2 diabetes was associated with an increased risk of subsequent dementia. Authors: Archana Singh-Manoux, Ph.D., of the Université de Paris, is the…

Decoding the spectral and temporal fine structure of soundCredit: UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA People's ability to perceive speech sounds has been deeply studied, specially during someone's first year of life, but what happens during…

Credit: U.S. Army photo illustration ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Army and Arizona State University researchers identified a set of approaches to help scientists assess how well autonomous systems and humans communicate. These…

Douglas Wilbur '14, a visiting Ph.D. scholar in the Department of Communication at UTSA, has published a study that shows how researchers can craft message campaigns to protect individuals from adopting extremist views. According to his…

Research led by the University of Kent has found that the personification of animals in recent wildlife documentaries leads to significant misinformation and creates problems for public understanding of wider conservation Research led by…

Screaming can save lives. Non-human primates and other mammalian species frequently use scream-like calls when embroiled in social conflicts or to signal the presence of predators and other threats. While humans also scream to signal…

Study findings may help explain patients' complaints of poor concentration and other cognitive symptoms that accompany sinusitis The millions of people who have chronic sinusitis deal not only with stuffy noses and headaches, they also…

This is the subject of the work by Demetrio Ferro, a researcher at the Center for Brain and Cognition, published on 23 March in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of AmericaCredit: Demetrio…

If relatives of people with mental illness become better at accepting the difficult emotions and life events they experience -- which is what training in compassion is about -- their anxiety, depression and stress is reduced If relatives…