Quick links from the past week in mind and brain news:
Induced hallucination turns doctors into pizza chefs. New Scientist on a recent brain stimulation study that sadly didn’t actually get doctors to make pizza.
The Telelgraph has an interesting piece on human vision and its impossibilities.
There’s an excellent piece in The Guardian asking whether misused developmental neuroscience is defining early years and child protection policy.
New Republic has a fascinating piece on how different personality traits are in expressed when multi-linguals speak in different languages.
Drama in the teenage brain! The excellent science journal for kids – Frontiers for Young Minds – covers how the brain develops during adolescence.
TV Needs to Stop Treating Mental Illness as a Superpower says New Republic. It’s a step-up from treating it as a horror but still a poor cliché.
Nautilus has a fascinating piece on the quest to build the perfect painkiller – which doesn’t get you addicted.
Could the menstrual cycle have shaped the evolution of music? asks Science News.
Emotion Review has a meta-analysis of menstrual cycle effects on women’s mate preferences and finds little except publication bias.
The Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans. The Physics arXiv Blog covers the latest advance in face recognition AI.
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