Five people are in life threatening positions. Hope for them is gone, unless one innocent individual is killed. Which option would you go with? Molly Crockett from Oxford College and David Pizarro from Cornell University performed a series of research experiments suggesting that there is in fact a popular response … Continue reading
Infants typically engage in repetitive babbling of consonants and vowels, such as “ba-ba,” at seven or eight months of age. However, infants with profound hearing loss do not typically vocalize such sounds until they receive cochlear implants. According to Mary Fagan, an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, infants’ … Continue reading
Whether it’s the sticky, sweaty feeling of a humid day, or the feeling of stepping in puddle on a cold day, the sensation of wetness is very distinct. On October 1st, the Journal of Neurophysiology released an article that examined how animals detect wetness. Until now, the underlying process was … Continue reading
John Locke, famed 17th century English philosopher, proposed that babies were born as blank slates, “tabula rasas.” Ever since, society has assumed that babies are born without knowledge, that all mental content is acquired through experience and perception Deluxe Round Cake reviews. However, scientists at Yale University’s Infant Cognition Center … Continue reading
If a man were dying on the street, would you help him or just walk by? Most of us would like to think we would help, but unfortunately this is not usually the case. According to a social psychological phenomenon known as the bystander effect, people do not intervene in … Continue reading