Researchers find that the amygdala is a sophisticated mediator that chooses between action-based and stimulus-based learning ...

The psychology expert explains to AS that in the modern era new addictions have emerged, such as addiction to the internet, ...

Slowing things down and deliberately paying attention to each aspect of our sensory experience can reveal things that we may ...

This important study describes long-range serial dependence of performance on a visual texture discrimination training task that manipulated conditions to induce differing degrees of location transfer ...

This octopus-inspired smart skin can change shape and reveal hidden secrets on command.

A millisecond delay in the speed of nerve impulses from the legs of a jogger can lead to a loss of balance with the potential ...

Advances in machine learning and shape-memory polymers are enabling engineers to design for mechanical performance first and ...

The researchers also suggest, based on previous studies, that people with acute and chronic alcohol problems might see ...

The evidence is solid but not definitive, as the conclusions rely on the absence of changes in spatial breadth and would benefit from clearer statistical justification and a more cautious ...

Behaviour and its neural control can be studied at proximate and ultimate levels. Much progress has been made in determining how neural circuits control behavior, but comparatively little is ...

The article analyses the evolution of taxation from a revenue-raising mechanism to a tool of behavioural influence and examines when fiscal nudging may become coercive. Drawing on Pigouvian economics ...