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Those with classically positive lifestyles, behaviors had different brain connections to those with classically negative ones
The researchers point out that their results resemble what psychologists refer to as the ‘general intelligence g-factor’: a variable first proposed in 1904 that’s sometimes used to summarize a person’s abilities at different cognitive tasks. While the new results include many real-life measures not included in the g-factor – such as income and life satisfaction, for instance — those such as memory, pattern recognition and reading ability are strongly mirrored.

A team of scientists led by the University’s Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain has investigated the connections in the brains of 461 people and compared them with 280 different behavioural and demographi...

This image shows the self-folding process of smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat. Using materials that fold at slightly different rates is important to ensure that the components do not interfere with one another during the process. Credit: Credit: Qi Laboratory, Georgia Tech

Using components made from smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat, researchers have demonstrated 4D printing technology that allowed creation of complex self-folding structures. The technology, from Georgia Institute of Technology and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), could be used to create 3D structures that sequentially fold themselves from components that had been flat or rolled into a tube for shipment...

The hippocampus is particularly active when a person solves conflicts quickly and successfully. Credit: © RUB, Grafik: Bierstedt

In everyday life, people are confronted with decision conflicts, especially if they need to suppress an action that would have made sense under normal circumstances. eg when the pedestrian lights go green, a pedestrian would normally start walking. If, however, a car comes speeding along at the same time, the pedestrian should stay where he is.

METHOD: Study participants heard the words “high” or “low” spoken in a high or low tone, and they had to state – regardless of the meaning of the word – at what pitch the speaker said them...