Using only data from an fMRI scan, researchers led by a Yale University undergraduate have accurately reconstructed images of human faces as viewed by other people.“It is a form of mind reading,” said Marvin Chun, professor of psychology, cognitive...
Mental illness and creativity have long been linked, yet how inspiration drives creative thinking has remained a mystery.A new study by researchers at Yale and the University of Lancaster in the United Kingdom explored how different types of inspiration...
Forming like a blown smoke ring does, a “contractile ring” similar to a tiny muscle pinches yeast cells in two. The division of cells makes life possible, but the actual mechanics of this fundamental process have proved difficult to pin down.Researchers...
Although separated by hundreds of millions of years of evolution, flies, worms, and humans share ancient patterns of gene expression, according to a massive Yale-led analysis of genomic data.(Illustration by Darryl Leja, NHGRI, NIH)Two related studies led...