experimental psychology

People remember people who look like they belong together — and a set of new experiments summarized in a Psychology Today writeup argues that social interaction itself is a cue the brain uses to prioritize associative memory, making pairs of faces that appear to be interacting more likely to be...

Cari Nierenberg writes: If two hands are better than one, then imagine what you could do with three. In a new study, Swedish researchers were able to trick participants' brains into believing their body had an extra arm. Brain scientists at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm conducted...