Satisfaction with romantic relationships approximately 45 percent is due to the way a person evaluates different aspects of them, and 21 percent of its individual characteristics. It found a team of scientists from Canada, USA, Europe and other countries: in Read more
Neuroscientists have found that the ventromedial prefrontal and entorhinal cortex encode the distances between the points in space of a social hierarchy. Persons with a known status was the reference nodes: the information about their position restored hippocampus, and relatively Read more
Failure to assess alternative outcomes of events prevents people from narcissism to understand that they did something wrong, and eventually leads to the fact that their mistakes they do not learn. It found American scientists, who conducted a series of Read more
American researchers have found that older people engaged in heavy physical labor in recent work, there are problems in working memory. In addition, analysis of MRI data pointed to a reduced size of the hippocampus of those study participants who Read more
Psychologists analyzed the results of several studies of bisexuality in men and confirmed that their sexual orientation is not discrete: there are men in varying degrees excite people of different sex. However, most of the volunteers were more inclined to Read more
The researchers showed that neurons bystrorezhuschej striped body play an important role in the switching of attention between stimuli and the selection of relevant signals. Some of the neurons of this type in an experiment with macaques the rhesus monkey Read more
Canadian neuroscientists tracked transitions of brain States on fMRI and tied them with new thoughts. When watching the film transitions coincide with scene changes, and neurotic people the transitions were more frequent. The authors of an article published in the Read more
Scientists have confirmed that a viewer is unconscious gestures of a magician can influence the decision — supporting selection of a particular card. Participants in the experiment chose the right card nine times more often when the magician used gestures, Read more
Psychologists have found that 200 milliseconds before the expected tactile stimulus microsaccade (rapid eye movements) are inhibited. Moreover, the absence of saccades helps to react quickly to the touch and to correctly estimate its parameters. The results, published in Nature Read more
Psychologists have found that fear caused by the spatially close events (appearance of a dangerous stranger), activates a different zone than if the threat is in the distance. In the first case, the Association with danger before being formed, slowly Read more