Scientific American Podcast: 60-Second Mind Folgen

Survey subjects rated life experiences as making them happier and as a better use of money than buying objects. But they actually spent their cash on material goods, whose value is more easily quantifiable. Erika Beras reports

Children who experience neglect, abuse and/or poverty can have smaller amygdalas and hippocampuses, brain regions involved in emotion and memory, compared with kids raised in nurturing environments. Christie Nicholson reports  

Monkeys trained to play fixed video games made moves indicating that they expected certain patterns to occur. Erika Beras reports