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Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind - life - 28 August 2009 - New ScientistContinue reading page | 1 | 2 | 3 Editorial: Red alert IMAGINE you are an experienced martial arts referee. You are asked to score a number of taekwondo bouts, shown to you on video. In each bout, one combatant is wearing red, the other blue. Would clothing colour make any difference to ...
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Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind - life - 28 August 2009 - New ScientistIMAGINE you are an experienced martial arts referee. You are asked to score a number of taekwondo bouts, shown to you on video. In each bout, one combatant is wearing red, the other blue. Would clothing colour make any difference to your impartial, expert judgement? Of course it wouldn't. Yet ...
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Erythropoietin boosts brainpowerHealthy young mice treated with erythropoietin show lasting improved performance in learning and other higher brain functions. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Biology tested the cognitive effects of the growth factor, finding that it improved the sequential learning and memory ...
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Adult brain processes fractions 'effortlessly' (4/9/2009)Although fractions are thought to be a difficult mathematical concept to learn, the adult brain encodes them automatically without conscious thought, according to new research in the April 8 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The study shows that cells in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) and ...
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Adult Brain Processes Fractions 'Effortlessly'Adult Brain Processes Fractions 'Effortlessly' ScienceDaily (Apr. 9, 2009) — Although fractions are thought to be a difficult mathematical concept to learn, the adult brain encodes them automatically without conscious thought, according to new research in the April 8 issue of The Journal of ...
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Hollow mask illusion fails to fool schizophrenia patients (4/7/2009)Patients with schizophrenia are able to correctly see through an illusion known as the 'hollow mask' illusion, probably because their brain disconnects 'what the eyes see' from what 'the brain thinks it is seeing', according to a joint UK and German study published in the journal NeuroImage. The ...
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Feelings, Universal Musical FeelingsCameroon’s Mafa farmers don’t know U2 from YouTube, and that’s how they like it. So it comes as a scientific revelation that, according to a new study, these Africans who are cocooned from Western culture recognize expressions of happiness, sadness and fear in the same musical passages that ...
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Thick-Brained People Are SmarterKarama and his colleagues used MRI to scan the brains of 216 healthy boys and girls ages 6 to 18 from a range of ethnic groups and socioeconomic statuses, mirroring the 2000 census. These children also took intelligence exams testing analogies, vocabulary, reasoning and visual-spatial skills. Th...
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Effects of brain exercise depend on opponentEffects of brain exercise depend on opponent Playing games against a computer activates different brain areas from those activated when playing against a human opponent. Research published in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience has shown that the belief that one is playing against a ...
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Why We Procrastinate and How to Stop | Newsweek Voices - Wray Herbert | Newsweek.comNew research on why we procrastinate and what we can do to follow through on at least some of those plans for the new year.
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