Reading Brain
Hearing and deaf people's brains process words differently when reading English
Tourette’s Treatment
Nicotine patches can cut the medicine needed for Tourette's, reducing devastating side effects.
Drugs vs. Therapy
Drugs and talk therapy both bring about changes in the brain.
Multitasking
Multitasking -- doing several things at once -- is less efficient than doing one thing at a time.
Myelin Transplant
Transplanting Schwann cells into the brain to treat multiple sclerosis
Circadian Rhythms
Studying the chemicals responsible for re-setting the body's internal clock
Stuttering
People who stutter have more abnormalities in the brain areas responsible for language.
Math Anxiety
Students anxious about math do worse on tests, even when they know the material, because their anxiety takes up valuable energy that could have been used for the math.
Smell and Behavior
Teasing out how the nose works and how the sense of smell is important in everyday life.
Computer Personality Test
Psychologists will give an artificially intelligent machine named GAC (developed by the Mindpixel project) a psychological exam.
Cause and Effect
Seeing an effect, people will think they've also seen the cause.
Dolphin Brains
Learning how the dolphin brain evolved can tell us more about our own brain
Language Trouble
Teasing out how the brain processes long and complex sentences to find ways to treat patients with conditions that causes impairment.
Schizophrenia Virus
A retrovirus embedded in the human genome may contribute to schizophrenia.
Momma’s Voice
A brain transplant can make a baby chicken respond to the call of a mother quail.
Word Associations
How people form associations between words, concepts and objects.
Musical Pleasure
Why is music pleasureable? (because it may help us learn better, in the end, helping us survive)
Humor on the Brain
MRI scans show the parts of the brain stimulated by different types of jokes.
Eye Tracking
Using an eye-tracking device to learn how children process spoken language
Learning English
Computerized speech can teach Japanese adults to distinguish Ôr' and Ôl'