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Movies Tuned to Our Brains
The Wall Street Journal: Three seconds is just too long. If this sentence were a Web page and it took that long to finish loading, you’d give up and go get a pizza. In 2000
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Nature Has A Good Beat, But Can You Dance To It?
NPR: Rhythm in music is about timing — when notes start and stop. And now scientists say they’ve found a curious pattern that’s common to musical rhythm. It’s a pattern also found in nature. Let’s
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Brain scans in infants shed light on autism onset
CNN: New research provides evidence that wiring in the brains of children with autism differs from typically developing children as early as six months of age, according to a study published in the American Journal
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Broken Hearts Really Hurt
“Broken-hearted” isn’t just a metaphor—social pain and physical pain have a lot in common, according to Naomi Eisenberger of the University of Califiornia-Los Angeles, the author of a new paper published in Current Directions in
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The Oops! Response
Scientific American: Is intelligence innate, or can you boost it with effort? The way you answer that question may determine how well you learn. Those who think smarts are malleable are more likely to bounce
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Why People Believe Misinformation, Even After It’s Corrected
ABC News: Have you seen the photo of the dog that’s as big as a horse? How about the deer on top of a telephone pole? And do you know about the Hollywood actor who
