The cells of the human brain function like a colony of ants, in which each individual interacts with the rest to make decisions. This is the conclusion that Professor James Marshall of the University of Bristol has just reached.
While in women both cerebral hemispheres are activated when admiring a painting or a beautiful object, men use only the right one. The differences could have an evolutionary explanation.
When we try to fix our eyes, our eyes do not stay still, but move rapidly from back to front, in microscopic movements known as microsaccades that fulfill an important mission.
If you continually feel like time is slipping away from you, you don't need a longer day but a change in perception, according to a new study by researcher Michael DeDonno of Case Western Reserve University.
The stress caused by the urban environment prevents our brain from thinking clearly on a busy street and reduces our self-control. However, in the middle of nature we process information better and we have a good memory.
If you're brainstorming, put some blue around it. If instead you are trying to memorize data or read an important document, red is your best option, according to a study published today in the journal Science.
What is worth more, a euro or a hundred cents? Although mathematically the answer is obvious, our brain acts as if the value of one hundred cents were greater. The numbers confuse us, according to a study published in the journal Psychological Science.
Desert locusts go from being shy and solitary beings to grouping in massive swarms due to an increase in their levels of serotonin, a brain chemical also present in the human brain, according to the journal Science.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
