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08/17/2018 / By Ralph Flores

Same thing, only better: Your brain behaves differently when you’re outside than it does – performing the same tasks – indoors

The brain behaves differently outdoors compared to when it’s indoors, according to researchers from the University of Alberta. The study, published in the journal Brain Research, investigated what happens to the brain when it performs tasks in “increasingly complex environments” – such as the outdoors – using mobile electroencephalography (EEG). “Something about being outdoors changes brain activity,” lead author Joanna Scanlon explained […]

10/31/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Domesticated dogs have been dumbed down over the centuries, losing the higher intelligence of wild dogs who can calculate “cause and effect”

Wolves have been shown in past studies to be better at learning from each other than dogs, and they also observe each other more closely. Now, we can add cause-and-effect skills to the list of areas in which wolves reign superior after a new study that compared the reasoning skills of human-socialized wolves to those […]

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