Tag: fMRI

Opposite Or Same Sex, Male Or Female, Romantic Love Is All The Same To The Brain

Heterosexual or homosexual, male or female, it’s all the same as far as the brain systems that regulate romantic love are concerned, according to a new study from University College London (UCL), where researchers examined functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans of volunteers while they looked at the faces of their lovers. Drs Semir […]

Gestures and pictures ‘boost foreign language learning’

The team – from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany – reports the findings in the journal Current Biology. Many people – based on their school experience – would probably say that rote learning of long lists is perhaps not the best approach, but the study authors say […]