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Hidden Brain

Shankar Vedantam

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How powerful are placebos?

BRAIN WAVES

  • The power of belief. We’ve all heard of the placebo effect, but how powerful is it, exactly? A new study wanted to see whether placebos could improve memory, stress, and physical performance in older adults — even when p...
10 days ago

Why we’re okay with CEO pay gaps

BRAIN WAVES

  • Who’s the boss? In the era of the world’s first trillionaire, wealthy heads of companies often make the news for earning significantly more than their employees. But surprisingly, people don’t always recoil from giant CE...
17 days ago

How environment shapes the brain

BRAIN WAVES

  • Zip codes. Where you grow up can make a big difference, and a new study set out to see how different kinds of environmental factors shape children’s brains. Researchers analyzed thousands of scans from the Adolescent Bra...
24 days ago

How to sound more polite

BRAIN WAVES

  • Slow down. What does politeness sound like? A new study set out to test the relationship between speech rate and politeness. Researchers ran four studies where subjects took part in a few different tasks: they listened t...
a month ago

What determines the content of dreams?

BRAIN WAVES

  • Dream on. Ever wondered why you had that weird dream about a cow shooting you with a squirt gun? Or what it is that prompted you to dream about showing up to work in your underpants? Researchers collected thousands of dr...
a month ago

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