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How Do Animals Perceive Time? I’m writing this on a Tuesday, at 2:26 p.m. Minutes ago, it was 9 a.m., or so it feels; back then, I was enjoying the delusion, refreshed each morning, that I’d accomplish what I needed to do today. I still might—there are hours left in the workday—but I’m wiser than I was when I woke up five hours ago: it’ll be 7pm soon, the day definitively in tatters. Another of Time’s routine beatdowns. Advertisement One advantage of being a cat, or a stingray, is...

 E-Mail In your quest for true love and that elusive happily ever after, are you waiting for the "right" person to come along, or do you find yourself going for the cutest guy or girl in the room, hoping things will work out? Do you leave your options open, hoping to "trade-up" at the next opportunity, or do you invest in your relationship with an eye on the cost-benefits analysis? For something so fundamental to our existence, mate selection remains one of humanitys most enduring mysteries. I...

Date Time Imperial funds 17 new equality, diversity and inclusion projects New equality, diversity and inclusion projects have been funded to highlight diverse voices and encourage open conversations and collective learning. Eleven creative and exciting projects have been awarded funding in the second year of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Seed Fund. An additional six projects have been funded through the Strategic Priorities Fund and the Vice-Provost of Education and Student Experienc...

Share this article Share this article BEER-SHEVA, Israel, Feb. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) have developed a new method for rapidly diagnosing brain blood vessel pathology that may lead to neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimers disease, as well as other neurological and psychiatric conditions, including epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and stroke. The novel method is based on analysis of EEG patterns using proprietary algorithms and wa...

 E-Mail Efforts to improve the social success of autistic adolescents and adults have often focused on teaching them ways to think and behave more like their non-autistic peers and to hide the characteristics that define them as autistic. Psychology researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas, however, have been focusing on another approach: promoting understanding and acceptance of autism among non-autistic people. The researchers published their findings online Jan. 20 in the journal A...

Study suggests reducing biases about autism may increase social inclusion ANI | Updated: Feb 08, 2021 18:02 IST Dallas [US], February 8 (ANI): Psychology researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas have been focusing on a unique approach in efforts to improve the social success of autistic adolescents and adults, promoting understanding and acceptance of autism among non-autistic people. The researchers published their findings online in the journal Au...

February 6, 2021 at 11:30 pm by Devanshi Tomar Independence as a global construct isn’t always an accurate measure of self-esteem and happiness. Rather, according to Smaranda Lawrie, a doctoral student in UCSB’s Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, it is beneficial to recognize the varying meanings of independence among different cultures in trying to analyze the impact of independence on self-fulfillment. A crosswalk in Shinjuku, Tokyo. In their first study, Lawrie...

Researchers ask if we feel differently about ourselves since video-chat explosion February 1, 2021 SHARE Are we less satisfied with our appearances since the dawn of the "Age of Zoom?" Research from Washington University in St. Louis tackles the question. (Image: Shutterstock) Most people wouldn’t sit in front of a mirror for hours a day, checking themselves out, but the COVID-19 pandemic has found many doing just that. Video chatting services such as Zoom have become a common way to k...

This article by Evan Lewis-Healy was originally published on Psychedelic Spotlight, and appears here with permission. Dr. Hyder Khoja is hoping to treat coma patients with psychedelics in order to “jump-start” them back into consciousness. The monumental potential that psychedelics have to treat a panoply of psychopathologies is continuing to grow. At the time of writing, there are 59 clinical studies registered from all over the world that plan to use psilocybin to treat mental health...

Jan 27, 2021 Editor’s note: The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Today’s piece is by Brianna Yamasaki of the University of Washington. (THE CONVERSATION) — As a young adult in college, I decided to learn Japanese. My father’s family is from Japan, and I wanted to travel there someday. However, many of my classmates and I found it difficult to learn a language in adulthood. We struggled to connect new sounds and ...