Harmonia Psychologica Posts

Home, sweet home…

Scientists discover the brain’s internal goal map enabling animals to navigate precisely to a chosen destination. (source) Goals. Standing fast. Wishing I was there. Based on what I know now. I know I would be better if I leave. Tell me my child. Have you ever wandered what will you discover once you have seen…

Mirror mirror… Wake up!

Scrape, cluck, lay eggs – that’s it? Anyone involved in chicken farming knows that the animals are capable of much more. Researchers have found evidence that roosters could recognize themselves in a mirror. Whether this is successful, however, depends on the experimental conditions — a finding that points beyond the experiment with roosters and could…

Can you understand the cosmos?

Human decision-making depends on the flexible processing of complex information, but how the brain may adapt processing to momentary task demands has remained unclear. Researchers have now outlined several crucial neural processes revealing that our brain networks may rapidly and flexibly shift from a rhythmic to a ‘noisy’ state when the need to process information…