How do adults with vision impairment learn what animals look like?

People with vision impairments know a lot about the shape, size, color, and texture of animals they've never seen, but how?

Chanapa Tantibanchachai-Johns Hopkins • futurity
May 22, 2019 • ~4 min

Pikachu lights up brains of long-time Pokémon players

Did you play Pokémon as a kid? Your brain may respond differently than others' to pictures of Pikachu and other Pokémon.

Ker Than-Stanford • futurity
May 6, 2019 • ~7 min

Can categorization break the ‘curse’ on learning?

The "curse of specificity" keeps us from transferring progress on simple cognitive tasks to larger skills, but categorization may help.

Mollie Rappe-Brown • futurity
April 2, 2019 • ~6 min

Friends or strangers? Laughter lets babies know

When they hear laughter, babies as young as five months can tell if it's between friends or strangers.

James Devitt-NYU • futurity
March 11, 2019 • ~4 min

Can Netflix binges lead to ‘mean world syndrome’?

Binging violent shows may make you see the world as meaner and scarier than it really is, researchers report.

Boston University • futurity
March 11, 2019 • ~5 min

We need context to recognize emotions on faces

"...emotion recognition is, at its heart, an issue of context as much as it is about faces."

Yasmin Anwar-UC Berkeley • futurity
March 8, 2019 • ~5 min

Can you tell a real face from an A.I. fake?

A new website tests your skill for spotting real photos of faces versus fake ones artificial intelligence created.

U. Washington • futurity
March 6, 2019 • ~5 min

We savor 7 kinds of conversations most

There are 7 kinds of conversation that we really savor. Getting better at taking in a great moment could be good for us.

Alexis Blue-U. Arizona • futurity
March 5, 2019 • ~6 min

Making sense of how the blind ‘see’ color

A new Harvard study suggests that although the congenitally blind experience abstract visual phenomena such as rainbows and color differently, they still share with the sighted a common understanding of them.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Feb. 27, 2019 • ~7 min

Harvard researchers explore macular degeneration through a new lens

Researchers have created the first cellular atlas of the primate retina and discovered that, while the fovea and peripheral retina share most of the same cell types, the cells are in different proportions, and show different gene expression patterns.

Peter Reuell • harvard
Feb. 21, 2019 • ~6 min

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