Tag: Yawning
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Andrew Gallup, SUNY Oneonta – Yawns are Cool
Yawns confuse scientists. We’re not exactly sure what they are or why we yawn. We know they’re contagious, but we’re still working out all the other details. Dr. Andrew Gallup, an assistant professor of psychology has a new theory. He posits that yawns are a mechanism designed to cool the brain. Dr. Andrew Gallup is…
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Liz Cirulli, Duke Medicine – Contagious Yawns
Yawns are something of a physiological mystery. Elizabeth Cirulli, an assistant professor of medicine at Duke University, is attempting to unravel the confusion surrounding yawns. Liz Cirulli is an assistant professor at Duke University’s Center for Human Genome Variation. She earned her doctorate in 2010, graduating from Duke University’s Program in Genetics and Genomics. Liz…