Cognition

A new study published in the journal Science Advances has found that Hexadecanal or 'HEX', an odorless volatile chemical emitted...

Human infants come pre-loaded with some understanding of basic physics (naïve physics). We know this from how infants behave when...

A study published in the journal Cortex suggests that people who are incapable of forming mental images (aphants) are less...

Erring algorithms elicit harsher reactions compared to erring humans. A new study published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior...

Over the years, there has been an explosion in studies investigating mindfulness as a practice and as a personality trait....

In animals, certain traits function as ‘fitness indicators’. These traits (like the peacock’s tail) are signs of genetic quality or...

Peripersonal Space (PPS) is the space surrounding the body that the brain is super-committed to keep track of. The brain...

In psychology, prosocial tendencies (behaviors that benefit other people or society as a whole) are usually measured using experiments where...

Traumatic brain injury often leads to sensory-motor (paralysis) or cognitive deficits. In a subset of these cases, the patients are...

As much as 15 percent of the population may have difficulty distinguishing left from right according to a new study....