Author: Dr. David Lowemann

The Benefit of Seeing in Company

A new study by Ward and colleagues (Curr. Biol. 2019;29:874–880) finds that participants use mental rotation to calculate an avatar’s perspective on a scene without any prompt to do so. This often enables them to make faster judgments about the appearance of the scene than they could make if they viewed it on their own. […]

Published on April 12, 2019

Millions of children worldwide develop asthma annually due to traffic-related pollution

About 4 million children worldwide develop asthma each year because of inhaling nitrogen dioxide air pollution, according to a new study. The study, based on data from 2010 to 2015, estimates that 64 percent of these new cases of asthma occur in urban areas. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, […]

Published on April 12, 2019

People with a sense of oneness experience greater life satisfaction

People who believe in oneness — the idea that everything in the world is connected and interdependent — appear to have greater life satisfaction than those who don’t, regardless of whether they belong to a religion or don’t, according to new research. Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is […]

Published on April 11, 2019