October 31, 2013
Find a space with total darkness and slowly move your hand from side to side in front of your face. What do you see? If the answer is a shadowy shape moving past, you are probably not imagining things.
June 19, 2013
A brief visual task can predict IQ, according to a new study.
May 8, 2013
Children with autism see simple movement twice as quickly as other children their age, and this hypersensitivity to motion may provide clues to a fundamental cause of the developmental disorder, according to a new study.
May 3, 2013
Opposing thumbs, expressive faces, complex social systems: its hard to miss the similarities between apes and humans. Now a new study with a troop of zoo baboons and lots of peanuts shows that a less obvious traitthe ability to understand numbersalso is shared by man and his primate cousins.
January 3, 2013
Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how childrens brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.