Credit: HALUSTD from Popspixel via Canva When Dorothy Bishop was asked to review a paper for a small neuroscience journal in August, she could tell from the abstract the authors had used a dataset …

Three recent publications have reported selective fMRI responses to images of food in the human ventral visual pathway. However, all three studies were based primarily on the Natural Scenes Dataset (N...

Yes, yes, we know: It’s easy to publish “fake” papers in journals and expose the inherent flaws of academic publishing. We’ve covered many such stings, but there are simply …

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The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as separate entities

The male choice hypothesis proposes that same-sex attractions among heterosexual women evolved primarily for male benefit, reducing the risk of extra-pair paternity and providing additional mating opp...

Researchers hope to shed light on conditions such as schizophrenia, epilepsy, cerebral palsy, intellectual disability and rare forms of dementia

A psychology journal has retracted a paper on how using generative AI can affect confidence in work tasks after its sole author refused to share data with the editors.  The April paper, publis…

What must a neural system be capable of to implement language? Current research annotates stimuli with linguistic variables and tests which electrodes, voxels, or language-model layers predict neural ...

Appetite is shaped not only by physiological need but by the sensory experience of eating and its social context. Can watching food being eaten itself induce satiety, and does it matter who is seen ea...

Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is defined as the failure to achieve a clinically significant improvement in major depressive disorder (MDD) despite t