Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Brain scanning study shows people with synaesthesia who experience colours from letters or numbers, show activation in the ‘colour cortex’ during the experience.
A study finds that parents are more likely to give attention to good looking children.
Researchers study interaction between psychological and physiological factors in premature ejaculation “by measuring average times to ejaculation with stopwatches”.
Paper from journal Science discovers how sound can be transmitted to the brain with such precise timing.
Love is better than dieting for losing weight, says Italian news story that is suspiciously vague on where the findings come from.
American Scientist interviews philosopher and cognitive scientist William Hirstein.
UPDATE:
Research suggests men who take risks and like danger sports are not more attractive to women.
ABC Radio’s All in the Mind discusses the historical relationships between ‘neurology and the novel’ in classics such as Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde (transcript, realaudio).
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