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New research finds that people given advice by top performers thought that it helped them more, even though it usually didn't.

New research has identified one reason why some first-time producers struggle to repeat their initial creative productions while others go on to continually produce creative works.

A new study has added evidence showing that both prenatal and postnatal exposure to air pollution can harm kids.

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study, researchers report that the brain encodes the structure of sentences ('the vase is red') and phrases ('the red vase') into different neural firing patterns.