A new study from King's College London suggests that MDMA - found in ecstasy - may explain why users cooperate more after taking the drug. However, a caveat to this finding is that the enhanced cooperative effect only shows for people they have perceived as trustworthy and not to others deemed less ...
Date Posted: December 5, 2018
Categories: Drug Addiction, Executive Functions
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Neuroscientists from MIT have found the underlying mechanisms for the steering of attention away from trivial tasks towards potential threats, and they believe that dopamine is central to this process. Danger signals are received and interpreted in ...
Nov 14
Categories: Executive Functions, Other, Paranoia / Suspiciousness
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Why you should celebrate your poor memory.
Jul 25
Categories: Executive Functions
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ARE you intelligent - or rational? The question may sound redundant, but in recent years researchers have demonstrated just how distinct those two cognitive attributes actually are.
Sep 27
Categories: Adult psychological development, Executive Functions
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Some people have extremely good face recognition abilities that set them apart from the rest of the population, a group psychologists refer to as "super recognisers".
Nov 14
Categories: Executive Functions, Other
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Positive distractions can increase your mental performance compared with negative distractions, a new study finds.
Nov 12
Categories: Executive Functions, Other
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Oxford University researchers have identified an area of the human brain that appears unlike anything in the brains of some of our closest relatives.
The brain area pinpointed is known to be intimately involved in some of the most advanced planning ...
Feb 7
Categories: Executive Functions
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