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Our brains are able to judge the trustworthiness of a face even when we cannot consciously see it, a team of scientists has found. The researchers quickly showed the study's subjects images of real faces as well as artificially generated faces whose trustworthiness cues could be manipulated (as shown above) while examining the subjects' neurological responses. Credit: Journal of Neuroscience

Our brains judge a face’s trustworthiness—even when we can’t see it

Our brains are able to judge the trustworthiness of a face even when we cannot consciously see it, a team of scientists has found. Their findings, which appear in ...Full Article
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Words Can Change Your Brain

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can change your brain. That’s right. According to Andrew Newberg, M.D. and Mark Robert Waldman, words can literally change your brain.  In ...Full Article

Fear and pleasure in the amygdala

Here is a heads up for a recent studydemonstrating – again – that the amygdala is not merely a “fear centre” in the brain. I have previously blogged about the ...Full Article