Past Events Control Your Future Planning
Imagine a world where people are punished before committing a crime. Although it is strange, but it allows people to remember things before they happen. According to researchers posterior hippocampus is involved in future planning. Now scientists are discovering that human memory does indeed work forward. Studies show that the your past performances are more important in envisioning your future. The severely depressed patients have difficulty visualizing positive future events.
Researchers recognized that memory can construct, simulate and predict possible future events. These ongoing studies can provide new insights regarding the memory that relates to future-oriented thinking, planning, prediction and remembering intentions.
Identity Crisis Faced By The Facebook Generation
According to a warning given to the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, this generation who use internet for everything and who have never known a world unless they surf on-line are growing up with a dangerous view of the world and their own identity. They are going through major identity crisis. People who born after 1990 have grown up in a world dominated by online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. Many of these youngsters use Internet as the main medium to communicate. Their relationships are quickly disposed at the click of a mouse. Because of the online social networking, people find the real world boring and unstimulating. Because of this online mess, youngsters are going through the stages of vulnerable to impulsive to suicide.
Chat room communication reduced sensory experience; person’s expression/body language/ voice/tone aren’t there; and this can shape one’s perceptions of the interaction differently. Online session changes the perception to a dream-like state, and this unnatural blending of mind with the other person leads to entirely different meaning to friendships and relationships.
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Secret Sex Lives of Female Chimps
Female chimpanzees desire to have sex with as many males as possible. They keep their mouths shut about it, to increases their chances of luring the top chimps. Scientists at the University of St Andrews explored what the copulation calls of female chimpanzees mean. They have concluded that female chimps sometimes keep quiet during sex to prevent other females from intruding, so other female rivals don’t know what they’ve been up to.
Female Chimps produce more copulation calls when high-ranking males were around to attract them. By having sex with more males causes confusion among the male chimpanzees as to which one sired the offspring. Therefore, the males are less likely to kill any babies that might be theirs.
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Do You Want To Get Better Golf Scores?
New study proved that better golfers are more likely to see the golf hole as larger than other people. When they play well the hole looks as big as a bucket or basketball hoop, and when they do not play well they view hole looks like a dime.
When players look at the hole, the hole is going to be the center of their vision where there are more photoreceptors, and this means players are more likely to see it clearly, which will help them putt better.
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Fish’s Ears
Although we don’t see ears of fishes, they do have ear parts inside their heads. According to the National Wildlife Federation, fishes can pick up sounds in the water through their bodies and in the ear.
They also can sense movement in the water with the lateral lines. Interestingly, sharks have the ability to sense electricity, and genes that contribute to this sense is responsible for the head and facial features in humans. Therefore sharks and humans come down to a common ancestor back in time. Our ears evolved from fish gills.
Multiple Personality When You Speak Different Language
According to a research study published in the in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who are bi-cultural and speak two different languages can shift their personalities when they switch one language to another. In the study researchers found significant changes in one’s self perception called “frame-shifting” in bi-cultural participants who speak Spanish and English. Bi-cultural people switch frames more quickly and easily than those who are bilingual monoculturals. In the research women who came from Spanish background perceived themselves as more assertive when they spoke Spanish than when they spoke English.
In one of the studies, participants saw the ads in one language and in six months later, they saw the same ads in the other language. The participants saw an ad’s main character as a risk-taking, independent woman in the Spanish version and hopeless, lonely, confused woman in the English version.
Managing Emotionally Challenging Situations Comes With Age
Researchers from University of Alberta and Duke University have concluded that managing emotional situations really comes with age. They have identified brain patterns that can help older people to control emotion better than younger adults. In people with over the age of 60, the two regions in the brain are increased in activity when emotionally challenging situations were presented. Older people are better able to manage how much attention they should pay to negative situations. Therefore they’re less upset by them.
Rare Foreign Accent Syndrome From Stroke
A woman from southern Ontario Canada, recovering from a rare brain syndrome due to stroke, starts to speak with a different accent, and this is the first reported cases in Canada. This woman’s family noticed the accent change while the woman was recovering from a stroke. Her Ontario accent now sounds like Maritime Canadian English.
Researcher Alexandre Sévigny, a cognitive scientist at McMaster University in Ontario said that this women never visited the Maritimes, nor has she been exposed to anyone with an East Coast accent. Karin Humphreys, a psychologist at McMaster University reported that the woman didn’t notice any changes in her accent. As strange as it sounds, the ongoing research at McMaster University will open a new perspective of FAS.
Revolutioned Brain Surgery
Sicentists from Howard Florey Institute, Melbourne are developing a revolutionized technology to create individualized brain maps to diagnosis diseases and guide the brain surgery. Current coarse maps of the brain’s structure do not allow for differences that occur between people. This brain mapping technology will provide microscopic level investigation of individual brains, and it will be available in the next 2-3 years.
Uncontacted Tribe
This is a video showing men painted red and black are aiming arrows skyward at a helicopter. This is one of the world’s last uncontacted tribes have been spotted and photographed from the air. There are more than 100 uncontacted tribes known worldwide. These tribes simply reject contact with the outside world.
Factors Related to Homosexuality
Homosexuality is mostly influenced by both genetics and environmental factors. According to researchers from Queen Mary’s School and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, genetics and environmental factors which are specific to an individual (biological processes such as different hormone exposure in the womb) are the important determinants of homosexuality. Finding a single ‘gay gene’/ gene for heterosexual behaviour is influenced by a mixture of genetic and environmental factors, therefore it is very complicated.
The overall study proved that genetics accounted for around 35% of the differences between men in homosexual behaviour and other individual-specific environmental factors are accounted for 64%.
Traffic-Related Pollution Increases The Risk Of Allergy
Road pollution is increasing the risk of allergy and skin diseases among children by more than 50%. Children who live close to major roads and highways are at high risk of developing allergies and atopic diseases. They are exposed to a higher amount of traffic-derived particles, gases, and more freshly emitted high toxic aerosols. The results of this research appeared in the June issue of the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
