How Brain's 'Mirrors' Aid Our Social Understanding
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Whenever my editor approaches me, I quickly size up his body language before he has said a word. If he looks genial and relaxed, he probably liked my story. If his face looks set and determined, I know a wrangle over copy is probably ahead.
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NEW YORK  - People who see colorful "auras"  in response to people or words may simply have a brain  condition, not psychic powers, according to a new research  report.
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The study shows that images of fear affect the emotional part of the brain. Since the link between the emotional brain and action is stronger than the link between the visual brain and action, viewing fearful
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have previously been.
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Ever wonder why fear-mongering seems to work so well at the pollsâwhile appeals to reason often leave the electorate cold? A new book applies neuroscience to politics to figure out why the Democrats struggle to push the buttons in voters' brains.
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Coming face-to-face with someone who looks scared triggers an automatic response in the brain that tells you to be afraid too, US researchers suggest.
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Experts pinpoint a brain part that may hold the key to recognising places we have been.
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Chimpanzees display a similar sense of fairness to humans, one which is shaped by social relationships, experts claim.
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Applying some of the same brain-scan technology used to understand Alzheimer's and autism, scientists are trying to learn what makes a Republican's mind different from a Democrat's.
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New research provides more evidence that chimpanzee brains are human-like in terms of the links between brain asymmetry, language and right- or left-handedness.
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Psychologists once conducted a simple experiment with far-reaching implications: They asked people to describe an instance in their lives when they had hurt someone and another instance when they had been hurt by someone else. The incidents that people described were similar whether they saw...
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Subliminal images do attract the brain's attention on a subconscious level, say UK researchers.
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Researchers have found a 'bottleneck' in the brain that appears to explain why we struggle to do two things at once.
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The brain reacts more powerfully to the body language of a person in a posture denoting fear than it does to a fearful facial expression, according to a study released yesterday.
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Scientists discover that the symptoms of a severe brain disorder similar to autism can be reversed.
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BRAIN scans show that the brains of people who are lying look very different from those of people who are telling the truth, US researchers said on Monday.
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The brain uses three steps to identify faces. By transforming the features of Margaret Thatcher into those of Marilyn Monroe, researchers have revealed hints about how our brains put a name to a face.