The recognition of emotion in facial expressions may have a significant cultural component.
Apotemnophilia, characterized by the desire to amputate one's own limb, may have a neurological basis.
fMRI scans indicate that there may be an overlap in neural systems used to represent physical and social pain in humans.
An experiment with showing a scene from different angles suggests that we at least partially remember a scene with a three-dimensional representation.
A new study provides evidence that resting brain activity is involved in motor learning.
The same neurons that process the primitive physical rewards of food and water may also signal the more abstract mental rewards of information.
Specific components of a first and second language seem to be represented by different substrates in the brain.
fMRI scans demonstrate that hypnosis does indeed lead to increased activity in areas of the brain involved in attention, as well as in other areas involved in mental imagery and self-awareness.
We appear to incorporate tools into our mental representations of our bodies after using them for just a few minutes.
Averageness seems to determine attractiveness for female faces, whereas both averageness and symmetry seem to be important for male faces.
