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What Is Loss Aversion?

Russell A. Poldrack, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, replies  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Do Statins Produce Neurological Effects?

Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, responds  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up with Age?

James M. Broadway, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Brittiney Sandoval, a recent graduate of the... --...

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How Does Exercise Benefit Cognition?

David R. Jacobs, a professor in the division of epidemiology and community health at the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, and Na Zhu, a researcher in the same department,... --...

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Are Some Kids More Likely to Become Narcissists?

Aaron L. Pincus, a professor of psychology at Pennsylvania State University, explains -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Are Tablet Devices a Good Teaching Tool?

Daniel T. Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do, responds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Do Animals Recognize Themselves?

Marc Bekoff, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado Boulder, explains  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Why Don't Figure Skaters Get Dizzy When They Spin?

Amir Kheradmand, an assistant professor of neurology at Johns Hopkins Hospital, answers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Are Lefties Physically or Psychologically More Vulnerable?

Stephen Christman, a professor of psychology at the University of Toledo, explains -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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How Do Connectomes Contribute to Human Cognition?

Alexander Fornito, an associate professor at the Monash Institute of Cognitive and Clinical Neurosciences in Melbourne, Australia, responds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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When Do Children Start Making Long-Term Memories?

Dima Amso, an associate professor in the department of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University, answers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Can I Learn to Think More Rationally?

Daniel Willingham, a professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Raising Kids Who Read: What Parents and Teachers Can Do, responds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Why Do We Cry?

Oriana Aragón, an assistant professor of marketing at Clemson University, answers -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Does Temporal Lobe Epilepsy Influence Personality?

Sallie Baxendale, a consultant neuropsychologist at the Institute of Neurology at University College London, explains -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Is There a Link between Music and Math?

Nadine Gaab, an associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Jennifer Zuk, a doctoral student at Harvard University, answer:  -- Read more on...

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Does the Brain Use More Energy During Particular Activities?

Claude Messier, a psychology professor at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, and Alexandria Béland-Millar, a Ph.D. candidate in his laboratory, respond:  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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Why Is Synaptic Pruning Important for the Developing Brain?

Irwin Feinberg, professor emeritus of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of California, Davis, replies:  -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com

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