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Brain Stimulation During Non-REM Sleep Enhances Memory
Transcranial application of low-frequency electrical current during early nocturnal sleep potentiates the subject’s ability to remember words memorized the night before, German neuroendocrinologists report in this week...
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Neanderthal genotyping spurs novel scientific field
The reality of a complete Neanderthal genome draws near, as two papers report the sequencing of large amounts of Neanderthal DNA. The results help answer some central questions on human evolution. This novel trend in gene resea...
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The chemical sense of retaining detailed memories
The levels of a chemical released by the brain determine how detailed a memory will later be, according to researchers at UC Irvine. The neurotransmitter acetylcholine, a brain chemical already established as being crucial for ...
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Cognition & Emotion
A new issue of Cognition & Emotion is out. It is a special issue on Magda B. Arnold‘s contributions to emotion research and theory. Here, we bring the table of content of this issue.
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When Just One Sense Is Available, Multisensory Experience Fills in the Blanks
A new article is out describing how we use our senses to fill out the blanks when we are only provided with input from one modality. Talking in a phone is a good example. Here, we are only provided with the auditory input. In a...
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Impaired emotions of self and others
Alexithymia is a manifestation of a deficit in emotional cognition. People with this problem are mostly unaware of their feelings, or don’t know what they signify, and hence they rarely talk about their emotions or their ...
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Even black-and-white bananas look yellow
Experiment reveals how expectation interferes with perception. What colour are your bananas? Most people see a tinge of yellow even when the picture is grey. When we look at a banana, does our brain tell us it looks yellow, eve...
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Dressing up with hormones
Women tend to be influenced by their ovulation status when they pick their clothes. “Near ovulation, women dress to impress, and the closer women come to ovulation, the more attention they appear to pay to their appearanc...
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Society for Neuroscience 2006
Neuroscience 2006, the Society’s 36th annual meeting, will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center, in Atlanta, Ga., from October 14-18 , 2006. Every year the Society for Neuroscience provides the premier venue for n...
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Mind, October 2006
The October issue of Mind from Oxford University Press is out. It includes articles on “semantics for monists”, discussions about identity theory, and a number of book reviews. Mind, October 2006; Vol. 115, No. 460