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I recognise you! But how did I do it?

Are you someone who easily recognizes everyone you’ve ever met? Or maybe you struggle, even with familiar faces? It is already known that we are better at recognizing faces from our own race but researchers have only recently questioned how we assimilate the information we use to recognize people.
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How The Brain Routes Traffic For Maximum Alertness

A new UC Davis study shows how the brain reconfigures its connections to minimize distractions and take best advantage of our knowledge of situations...
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Internet Addiction Linked To White Matter Differences In Teen Brains

Researchers in China who compared the brain scans of 18 teenagers diagnosed with Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD) with those of 18 non-addicted teenagers found differences in white matter density in over 20 brain regions. A report on their findings was published online in the 11 January issue of PLoS ONE...
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Same Sex Co-Workers Sympathize When They Observe Lack Of Respect Aimed At Their Colleagues

Imagine the following scenarios: a co-worker is spoken to condescendingly, excluded from a meeting, or ignored by a supervisor...
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People Mimic Each Other, But We Aren’t Chameleons

It's easy to pick up on the movements that other people make - scratching your head, crossing your legs. But a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that people only feel the urge to mimic each other when they have the same goal. It's common for ...
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Internet Addiction Disorder Characterized By Abnormal White Matter Integrity

Internet addiction disorder may be associated with abnormal white matter structure in the brain, as reported in the online journal PLoS ONE. These structural features may be linked to behavioral impairments, and may also provide a method to study and treat the disorder...
Posted on January 12 2012 Read more...

Deaf sign language users pick up faster on body language

Deaf people who use sign language are quicker at recognizing and interpreting body language than hearing non-signers, according to new research.
Posted on January 12 2012 Read more...

How the brain routes traffic for maximum alertness

A new study shows how the brain reconfigures its connections to minimize distractions and take best advantage of our knowledge of situations.
Posted on January 12 2012 Read more...

Discrimination may harm your health

Racial discrimination may be harmful to your health, according to new research. In the study, the authors examined data containing measures of social class, race and perceived discriminatory behavior and found that approximately 18 percent of blacks and 4 percent of whites reported higher levels of emotional upset and/or physical symptoms due to race-based treatment.
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Scarcity of women leads men to spend more, save less

The perception that women are scarce leads men to become impulsive, save less, and increase borrowing, according to new research.