Month: November 2019

Meth Trip Or Mental Illness? Police Who Need To Know Often Can’t Tell

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Published on November 1, 2019

Track It to Crack It: Dissecting Processing Stages with Finger Tracking

A central goal in cognitive science is to parse the series of processing stages underlying a cognitive task. A powerful yet simple behavioral method that can resolve this problem is finger trajectory tracking: by continuously tracking the finger position and speed as a participant chooses a response, and by analyzing which stimulus features affect the […]

Published on November 1, 2019

Bacterial arms race may shape gut microbiome

Researchers wanted to understand what forces drive the composition and ecology of microbes that live in people’s guts. The human gut microbiome is critical to aspects of health and disease. The researchers found that several of the Bacteroides species that populate the gut have sizable gene-cluster defenses that neutralize toxins from competitor organisms. The clusters […]

Published on November 1, 2019