#ericwdolan — Public Fediverse posts
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The neuroscience of placebo analgesia: Brain pathway explains how expectations reduce pain
"Placebo analgesia reveals the human brain’s natural ability to modulate pain. For pain physicians and scientists, harnessing this inherent power for pain management is a compelling goal" -- #EricWDolan
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Scientists discover sleep “reset” mechanism in the brain that prevents memory overload
"The research team studied the brain activity of mice to better understand how the hippocampus balances memory storage during sleep." -- #EricWDolan
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Scientists reveal a fascinating neurocognitive trait linked to heightened creativity
"[T]he researchers behind this study proposed ... that creative individuals might process the importance, or salience, of information in an atypical way." -- #EricWDolan
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Your sense of time can be warped by what you are looking at, study finds
https://www.psypost.org/your-sense-of-time-can-be-warped-by-what-you-are-looking-at-study-finds/
"The results from the first two experiments demonstrated that scene size and clutter have significant but opposing effects on perceived duration. Larger scene sizes consistently caused participants to perceive the durations as longer (time dilation), while increased clutter led to the perception of shorter durations (time contraction)." -- #EricWDolan
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Breathing helps to synchronize neural activity in cognitive areas of the waking brain, study finds
"This may explain how breathing exercises or the conscious control of breathing in meditation can modulate cognitive and emotional states." -- #EricWDolan
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New psychology research indicates that social rigidity is a key predictor of cognitive rigidity
"The study, published in Psychological Research, provides evidence that people who embrace rigid political and social attitudes tend to perform worse on tests of problem-solving abilities." -- #EricWDolan
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