The CBU recently ran an online experiment in cooperation with the BBC Radio 4 show The Human Zoo. “The Human Zoo explores the foibles, quirks and behaviour of that most fascinating of species – us!” Familiarity breeds contempt, as the saying goes. But psychologists say that repetition does something powerful to our appreciation of everything […]
Word processing – faster than we thought
A recently published study by researchers at the CBSU led by Lucy MacGregor (left) helps us understand more about the remarkable speed with which the brain can access neural representations of words – that is, memories of words encoded by the brain. Volunteers heard real words (such as “lake”) intermixed with nonsense words (“lape”) whilst […]