Tag Archives: Brain
Selective Hearing Explained!
Well, it turns out that selective hearing is no joke, after all! Scientists recently conducted an experiment to determine how our brains process language. They found that we do not process every word in a sentence and often our brains have no cognition of key words that impact the meaning of the sentence. The team used sentences that contained “semantic … [ Read more ]
Altruistic Behavior Result of More Gray Matter?
Why are some people more altruistic than others? A new study from the University of Zurich suggests that people with more gray matter between the parietal and temporal lobe are indeed, more altruistic. Researchers conducted the experiment by having subjects divide up money between themselves and an anonymous person while they monitored their brain activity. Still, scientists caution that altruistic … [ Read more ]
Size Matters For Brain Recognition
Recent discoveries from a team of scientists at MIT reveal that the human brain has separate areas reserved for identifying small and large objects. Dr. Talia Konkle lead the study which examined how the human brain’s visual system integrates information regarding specific objects and their sizes. These findings have important implications for the creation and programming of robots using artificial … [ Read more ]
