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The pleasures of scratching an itch

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> Stroke victim cannot recognise close family
Neuropsychologists in The Netherlands and the UK have documented the curious case of a 62-year-old stroke patient whose brain damage affected her perc...
> Does vision training help in sport?
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have reported dramatic improvements in their baseball team after enrolling the players in "vision training...
> Cosmetic surgery and mental health
Are people who opt for medically unnecessary, cosmetic surgery psychologically vulnerable? Does having such surgery bring them psychological relief?...
> When do babies enter the uncanny valley?
In the 1970s the roboticist Masahiro Mori noticed a curious phenomenon. As robots became more human-like, their appeal increases - but only up to a po...
> Doubts over visual processing theory
Psychologists in Germany have challenged one of the most influential theories in neuropsychology - the dual stream model of visual processing proposed...
> When depressed mothers give birth to thriving babies
Shelves of evidence show the long-term, adverse consequences for an embryo of having a mother who is stressed or malnourished during pregnancy....
> Better memory capacity speeds up time
Working memory is like a neural memo-pad. People with higher working memory capacity can hold more items in mind whilst solving a concurrent problem o...
> Facebook and Twitter: Two different tribes?
A study reported on our Research Digest suggests there are meaningful differences in the personality profiles of people who useTwitter and Facebo...
> How hand and eye are bound together
An intriguing new study has tested whether anticipatory, vicarious eye movements still occur if our hands are tied up, literally....
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