AvatarEric LovasIs the Default Mode of the Brain to Suffer?New York Magazine - By Drake BaerIf you’re going to get any sort of science done, an experiment needs a control group: the unaffected, possibly placebo-ed population that didn’t take …
AvatarEric LovasNorway's PM caught playing Pokémon Go in parliamentverified_publisherThe Guardian - Elena CresciThe Norwegian prime minister has been caught playing Pokémon Go during a debate in Norway’s parliament. Erna Solberg was pictured playing the game during a debate in the Storting on Tuesday. It’s no secret Solberg is a big fan of Pokémon Go. During an official trip in Slovakia, she took some time …
AvatarEric LovasWhat Math Looks Like in the Mindverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Adrienne LaFranceIn a surprise to scientists, it appears blind people process numbers by tapping into a part of their brains that’s reserved for images in sighted individuals. Humans are born to do math, and they have the brain infrastructure to prove it—including a cluster of specialized nerve cells for processing …
AvatarEric LovasResponse to Anxiety Linked to Movement Control Areas in Brain - Neuroscience Newsneurosciencenews.com - Neuroscience NewsResearchers have discovered that the response to anxiety in teenagers may include not only the parts of the brain which deal with emotions (the …