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One Face, Many Places: The Development of Different Cortical Regions Responsible for Face Processing
Teaching: Use this lesson plan to teach students about the areas of the brain that interpret faces.
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I Can’t Sleep. Now What?
Maybe your mind can’t stop racing. Maybe your afternoon coffee or dinner cocktail is keeping you up. So many factors affect our ability to sleep. … For Aric Prather, a sleep specialist at the University
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Researchers Identify Four Autism Subtypes with Distinct Genes and Traits
… When genetic sequencing of the human genome began in earnest in the 1990s, autism researchers hoped to identify the genetic cause—or more likely, causes—of the condition. “Twenty years ago the geneticists were saying, ‘We’re
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Two Maps In the Mind: How the Brain Stores What We Know About Others
Podcast: Why does the brain use two different reference systems to encode social knowledge? Under the Cortex explores.
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Feeling Betrayed By a Family Member? Here’s How To Cope
Social rejection by someone close to you can feel as acute as physical pain. If you felt as though your heart broke, or you’d been punched in the gut, that’s because social rejection and physical
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From Memory and Plasticity to Collective Cognition and AI
Groundbreaking research on the mechanisms of emotional memory and brain plasticity, the dynamics of collective cognition, and psychological science’s intersection with artificial intelligence (AI) were all on display at the 37th APS Annual Convention in May.
