University College London announced May 15, 2014 that watching films with stressful scenes can trigger changes to the heart's beating pattern, in a new study published in the journal Circulation, Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology. The team from UCL, King's College London and Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospital...

The mechanics of sleep and the process by which we store and retrieve memories has from ancient times been approached through many myths and theories, but it is only recently that hard science is seriously uncovering these mysteries of the mind. A study in Nature Neuroscience,...

J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist at the University at Buffalo who has conducted extensive studies in animal cognition, says there is growing evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition - that is, they may share human's ability to reflect upon,...