A research team from the Cognitive Neurotechnology Unit and the Visual Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Toyohashi ...

Church and protests are safe, beaches and parties are not? Two new studies showcase a tendency on full display during the COVID-19 pandemic: People perceive as less risky the activities they condone ...

Sensations unrelated to hunger, like pain, influence neural activity in the brain’s hunger circuits through pathways that could be targeted. That’s the finding of Amber Alhadeff, the winner of the ...

Married couples and long-term romantic partners typically engage in a variety of behaviors that sustain and nourish the relationship. These actions promote higher levels of commitment, which benefits ...

All three major U.S. stock indexes — the Dow Jones, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq — rose Tuesday. It was a similar story in other markets too. After Monday’s biggest single-day drop in almost 40 years, ...

To clarify the mechanism of serial dependence in number perception, a research team conducted two tests, independently asking subjects to estimate the number of coins, or to estimate the value of ...

A typical human cell consists of about 20,000-25,000 genes neatly packed in the DNA. Not only do those genes define who we are—but they also translate directly into our personalities, preferences, ...

Years ago, I visited an elderly relative living in a hotel that had been converted to a sort of independent living facility (but without the amenities found in contemporary facilities). The place was ...

On a recent late winter day in the historic district of Park Slope, Brooklyn, a handful of cars neatly parallel parked along one of the neighborhood’s brownstone-lined side streets bore a conspicuous ...

The interdisciplinary field of cyberpsychology has made a significant impact on key areas of computing, including ...