Aging Brains
Age-related working memory loss may be at least partly reversible.
The Brain
Soccer Goalies
Soccer goalies tend to dive toward the right when their team is behind.
Beauty & Brains
One area of the brain becomes active when we experience beauty.
Podcast for 22 July 2011
THE BRAIN & SOCIETY: How the brain experiences beauty, what soccer reveals about the mind, and …
Theta Waves
A type of spontaneous brain activity seems to create favorable conditions for remembering things.
Podcast for 1 July 2011
A failing grade for fat substitutes, a master regulator gene for fat, a brainwave that helps control …
Deaf Vision
The retinas of people who have been deaf from birth enhance their peripheral vision.
Neanderthal Hands
Evidence from ancient teeth suggests that most Neanderthals were right-handed, like us.
Barbie Effect
To study how we perceive our environment, scientists created the illusion of being either Barbie …
Blind Echolocation
Blind people who can echolocate use their brain's visual center to do so.
Brainy Noses
We may owe our large brains in part to the earliest mammals’ sense of smell.
Podcast for 10 June 2011 – Vision & The Brain
What reindeer can see that we can't. How some blind people are using echolocation to navigate the …