/tags/the-brain The Brain en-US Copyright KUT News 2025 Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:52:35 GMT /science/2014-10-10/how-to-make-yourself-happy Happiness may be one of the most common and egalitarian of human emotions, but all aren't created equal when it comes to elation.The work of Harvard’s Dan� Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:52:35 GMT /science/2014-10-10/how-to-make-yourself-happy Rebecca McInroy /science/2014-09-12/how-embarassment-limits-our-ability-to-learn-new-languages Can you remember what it was like for you to learn your native language? Probably not, but why is that?As humans, we begin learning to speak our native� Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:45:54 GMT /science/2014-09-12/how-embarassment-limits-our-ability-to-learn-new-languages Rebecca McInroy , Alicia Choina /science/2014-09-05/why-all-memory-is-virtual-memory We may think of our memory functioning much like a movie camera does; capturing a scene and replaying it in a linear fashion. Yet, in actuality, it’s more� Fri, 05 Sep 2014 16:01:17 GMT /science/2014-09-05/why-all-memory-is-virtual-memory Rebecca McInroy /science/2014-08-29/why-can-school-be-so-boring If you’ve seen "Ferris Bueller’s Day Off" or ever been in a classroom, you know that school can sometimes be very boring. However, learning and coming up� Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:58:09 GMT /science/2014-08-29/why-can-school-be-so-boring Rebecca McInroy /science/2014-08-08/why-failure-can-make-you-a-more-successful-person Failure is a word that carries a lot of baggage, arousing emotional responses that we’d usually rather avoid. What about success? Why does the thought of� Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:06:42 GMT /science/2014-08-08/why-failure-can-make-you-a-more-successful-person Rebecca McInroy , Alicia Choina /science/2014-07-04/why-were-more-influential-than-we-may-think Being the incredibly social species that we are, we humans simply cannot avoid influencing one another when we interact. Influence is inevitable. The� Fri, 04 Jul 2014 13:11:22 GMT /science/2014-07-04/why-were-more-influential-than-we-may-think Alicia Choina, Rebecca McInroy /science/2014-06-20/jean-piaget-and-the-journey-from-infancy-to-adulthood Swiss psychiatrist Jean Piaget was born in 1896, and died in 1980. His background was in biology, but he became fascinated with studying the psychological� Fri, 20 Jun 2014 14:00:15 GMT /science/2014-06-20/jean-piaget-and-the-journey-from-infancy-to-adulthood Rebecca McInroy , Alicia Choina