Topic: Cognitive Science
Brain science starting to impact varied fields
Reuters Life! Online Report
<div><p>PHILADELPHIA (Reuters Life!) - It used to be that only doctors were interested in brain scans, searching the images for tumors, concussions or other health problems hiding inside a patient's skull.</p><p>More and more, though, images showing neurons ...
Matter in hand: Jugglers have rewired brains
AFP Global Edition
<div><p>Neuroscientists have discovered that learning to juggle causes changes in white matter, the nerve strands which help different parts of the brain communicate with each other.</p><p>University of Oxford researchers recruited 48 healthy young adults who were unable ...
Report: CIA interrogations informed by bad science
AP Features
<div><p>Prolonged stress from the CIA's harsh interrogations could have impaired the memories of terrorist suspects, diminishing their ability to recall and provide the detailed information the spy agency sought, according to a scientific paper published Monday.</p><p>The ...
British John Mayer, Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire
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