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Psychological and brain science

Cognitive neuroscience

Blind people can't see color but understand it the same way as sighted people

Published Aug 17, 2021

Experiments with blind and sighted people upend adage that blind people lack deep knowledge of visual phenomena

Cognitive science

Study: The most curious babies become the most curious toddlers

Published June 28, 2021

Infants' responses to surprising events like magic tricks are linked to later cognitive ability, researchers find

Perception

Mimes help us 'see' objects that don't exist

Published April 5, 2021

Researchers use mime techniques to better understand vision and perception, finding that implied objects and surfaces such as walls or boxes can be 'seen' even when they don't exist

Neuroscience

This is your brain on code

Published Dec 17, 2020

Using fMRI scans of computer programmers as they read code, researchers have discovered that the complex language processing takes place in the left hemisphere in a part of the brain dedicated to logical reasoning

A baby selects a toy from a selection of toys in front of him

Psychological sciences

Babies' random choices become their preferences

Published Oct 2, 2020

We assume we choose things that we like, but research suggests that's sometimes backward: We like things because we choose them, and we dislike things that we don't choose

Oh, the humanity

Published March 19, 2020

Why are people hoarding toilet paper during the coronavirus outbreak? It takes restraint to resist our instincts in the face of social dilemmas, JHU professor says.

Cognitive science

Conceptualizing color

Published Fall 2019

Studies from Marina Bedny and Judy Kim suggest people born blind have a rich understanding of visual concepts that is not based solely on what they've been told / Johns Hopkins Magazine