What secrets does the human brain hide? Latest discoveries in neuroscience & cognitive science and unbelievable facts about the human brain
Just two months of conscious and proper practice of regular meditation seem to completely rebuild the human brain. This sensational conclusion was made by a team of scientists at Harvard Medical School. The results of the study were published in a special edition of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging. The experiment was…
Whose memory is better, male or female? British researchers found that women have more developed memory than men. Perhaps, for this reason, ladies never forget anniversaries and things that happened a long time ago. :) Researchers from Cambridge University tested the memory of 4500 people aged 49 to 90 and found…
Can we trust our memory or does it play tricks on us? Have you ever been certain about a past event, which you seemed to remember quite well, just to find out that you were wrong? It is believed that our memory works in such a way that any of…
The fact that some people can see auras while others cannot is intriguing. Could it be an inborn gift or something that must be learned? According to a recent paper, researchers of the University of Granada first proposed a scientific explanation for the phenomenon of aura. The Spanish researchers say…
A protein in the retina of the human eye can perceive magnetic fields. So humans seem to have a kind of magnetic 'sixth sense'. This was discovered by researchers at the Medical School of the University of Massachusetts, led by neuroscience and neurobiology professor Steven Reppert, who published their study in…
You might have noticed that you don't always remember your dreams. On some nights, you can have incredibly vivid dreams that you easily remember when you wake up. On other nights, you get out of your bed without having even the tiniest fragment of a dream in your mind. Why…
The phrase is French and means "already seen". The deja vu phenomenon describes an experience in which, for a few seconds or fractions of seconds, we feel that something we are experiencing at the moment has already happened in the past. Some people experience it every day, others very rarely,…
A research team in California, U.S., tried to give a more common sense explanation to the prophets' visions of angels described in the Old Testament. A team from the Research Centre for Out-of-Body Experiences argues that these metaphysical visions might indeed have taken place but could have been a product of…
The ancient legend that humans have a mystical sense organ – the so-called third eye – have deep and strong roots in eastern culture. In the esoteric European traditions, there is no mention of the third eye. In many Hindu legends and myths about this unusual organ, it is referred to as an indispensable feature of…
You know that sex is good for your health, confidence in your relationship, etc. But did you know that it makes your brain work better? The more often you have sex, the better and faster your brain works. At least, this is what a recent scientific study conducted at the…
