Neuroaesthetics uses the tools of psychology and neuroscience to understand the nature of aesthetic experiences, such as...
Cognition
Short nerve fibers made visible
A team led by Nikolaus Weiskopf from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig has now...
Babies retain even detailed events during a nap
While sleeping the brain goes through previously experienced things, consolidates new memory contents and summarizes...
Constrained Structure of Ancient Chinese Poetry Facilitates...
Ancient Chinese poetry is constituted by structured language that deviates from ordinary language usage [1, 2]; its poetic...
Listening to birdsong reveals basic features of rate perception...
The timing of acoustic events is central to human speech and music. Tempo tends to be slower in aesthetic contexts: rates...
A cat-and-mouse game: The brain has two systems for thinking...
The brain seems to have two different systems through which we can put ourselves into the shoes of someone else. These two...
Stroke: When the system fails for the second time
After a stroke, there is an increased risk of suffering a second one. Until now, it was known that if areas in the left...
The anticipation of events in time
Humans anticipate events signaled by sensory cues. It is commonly assumed that two uncertainty parameters modulate the...
Virtual “moonwalk” for science reveals distortions...
In order to orient ourselves in space, and to find our way around, we form mental maps of our surroundings. But what...
The Science of a Billboard Hit Song
Why is it that people find songs such as James Taylor’s “Country Roads,” UB40’s “Red, Red Wine,” or The...