Recent research findings of Professor Joe Forgas from University of New South Wales states that: "Positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external ...Read More
A lucid article by Sharon Begley explaining why torture is not an effective way of retrieving information with a conclusion where the facts speak louder. In what is probably a futile effort to avert a flood of pro-torture comments and e-mails, ...Read More
Fixing My Gaze is an autobiographical journey of Susan Barry and her recovery from strabismus, an astounding optical condition where the eyes are not properly aligned and in this case, it resulted in seeing the world flat, only in two ...Read More
The results in this article are not far from common sense. The downfalls of early risers …A reduction in brain activity in areas associated with attention was observed among the early birds. In addition, they felt sleepy and demonstrated slow performance on ...Read More
"The memories are not like flashlights that get progressively weaker as the battery runs low," Luck said. "They are more like a laptop computer that continues working at the same speed until it suddenly shuts down." This could be important ...Read More
Life without music would be a mistake. —Friedrich Nietzsche Maestro Daniel Barenboim philosophised the music relationship with life, the universe and everything at this year's Reith Lectures. Neuroscientist confirmed when performing music emotional responses which are excited when listening to music ...Read More