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Beer-goggles put to the test

A fascinating new study has demonstrated that consuming alcohol does not affect how men judge the age of women. The researchers say that this finding has important legal implications if alcohol is cited as a cause of impairing judgment in cases of unlawful sex with a minor. University of Leicester psychologist Vince Egan and Giray […]

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The Visual Cortex Goes Digital

Cognitive scientist Mark Changizi, from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is developing pictorial representations of digital circuits which he says can turn our eyes and visual cortex into a powerful, programmable digital computer. Writing in the journal Perception, Changizi explains that harnessing the power of our visual system requires visually representing a computer program in such […]

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Lack Of A McShrinky Makes Therapy Unappealing

Television’s portrayal of psychological counselors as either buffoons or unethical clods makes people less willing to seek professional mental health services, suggests a new study by three Iowa State University psychologists. In the latestJournal of Clinical Psychology they contend that shows like Frasier, Tell Me You Love Me and In Treatment can lead to lower […]

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Animals “Stuck In Time”

University of Western Ontario researchers investigating how animals perceive time have found that episodic-like memory in rats is qualitatively different from human episodic memory. Reporting their findings in Science, William Roberts and his colleagues in Western’s Psychology Department found that rats are able to keep track of how much time has passed since they discovered […]

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Brain’s Secondary Depth-Perception Mechanism Uncovered

Humans and other animals are able to visually judge depth because we have two eyes and the brain compares the images from each. But we can also judge depth with only one eye, and scientists have been searching for how the brain accomplishes this feat. Now, neuroscientists at the University of Rochester have identified a […]

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Scan A Brain And Predict The Future

Neuroscientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found they can predict whether test subjects will succeed or fail at a game by scanning their brains. “Before we present the task, we can use brain activity to predict with about 70 percent accuracy whether the subject will give a correct or an […]

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Making Sense Of Our Senses

How we perceive someone touching us may depend as much on memory, attention and expectation as on the stimulus itself, say brain researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) writing inNature Neuroscience. Working with monkeys, the researchers – Ranulfo Romo and Victor de Lafuente – have found that the animals’ perceptions of touch match […]

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The Eyes Don’t Have It

Color perception is most definitely not in the eye of the beholder, according to researchers at the University of Rochester. Their images of living human retinas show that the number of color-sensitive cones in the retina differs dramatically among people – by up to 40 times. The mystery of why people appear to perceive colors […]

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