Is Consciousness Continuous or Discrete? Scientists Think It’s Both
Two major theories have fueled a now 1,500 year-long debate started by Saint Augustine: Is consciousness continuous, where we are conscious at each single point…
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Body-Swapping Experiment Shows How “Swapping Bodies” With a Friend Changes Our Sense of Self
Our sense of who we are is thought to be influenced by things like our childhood experiences, our interactions with others, and now, researchers say,…
Our Brains’ Information Processing Capacity Is Constrained by a Constant but Limited Energy Supply
Our brains have an upper limit on how much they can process at once due to a constant but limited energy supply, according to a…
Why Do People Believe Con Artists?
What is real can seem pretty arbitrary. It’s easy to be fooled by misinformation disguised as news and deep fake videos showing people doing things…
Fear to Anger: Global Sentiments Towards COVID-19 Shift
The fear that people developed at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak has given way to anger over the course of the pandemic, a study…
Is What I See, What I Imagine? Neural Overlap Discovered Between Vision and Imagination
Medical University of South Carolina researchers report in Current Biology that the brain uses similar visual areas for mental imagery and vision, but it uses…
MIT Neuroscientists Investigate the Real Reason Behind a Classic Visual Illusion
Neuroscientists delve into how background brightness influences our perception of an object. It’s a classic visual illusion: Two gray dots appear on a background that…
False Memories of Crime Appear Real to Others When Told
People are no better than chance at identifying when someone else is recounting a false or real memory of a crime, according to a new…
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall – You’re Probably More Attractive Than You Think
People rate their own bodies as more attractive when viewed from a third-person perspective Are we the best at judging our own attractiveness? New research…
Scientists Can See the Bias in Your Brain – Even Before You Make Your Decision
Brain waves indicate how you will respond to your bias — even before you have a choice to make. The strength of alpha brain waves…
Never Trust a Person’s Face? New Research on Analyzing Facial Expressions
Researchers warn of drawing too-quick conclusions about people’s feelings from facial expressions. Interacting with other people is almost always a game of reading cues and…
Women Have to Be Likable, and Men Don’t – New Study Shows Why
A new study in The Economic Journal finds that likability is an influencing factor in interactions between women, as well as interactions between men and women,…
Questions About What It Means to Be Conscious After Discovery That EEG Doesn’t Always Track Being Awake
How to tell if a brain is awake: EEG may not always be a reliable reflection of consciousness Remarkably, scientists are still debating just how…
You Are Fake News – People Misremember Numerical Facts to Fit Their Biases
Study Finds You Create Your Own False Information Along with partisan news outlets and political blogs, there’s another surprising source of misinformation on controversial topics…
