From the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology press release via ScienceDirect: Short-term memory plays a crucial role in how our consciousness operates. Several years ago a hypothesis has been formulated,… Read more »
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, can boost donations and help drum up volunteers, according to a new… Read more »
From the Wellcome Trust press release via EurekAlert!: Acquiring ‘the Knowledge’ – the complex layout of central London’s 25,000 streets and thousands of places of interest – causes structural changes… Read more »
From the National Science Foundation press release: New research published today in the journal Science suggests it may be possible to use brain technology to learn to play a piano,… Read more »
From the SUNY Buffalo press release: If you’ve ever spent the day after Christmas rifling through the user’s manual of a new device, you’ll be interested to know that intense,… Read more »
From the University of Warwick press release: Human minds have hit an evolutionary “sweet spot†and – unlike computers – cannot continually get smarter without trade-offs elsewhere, according to research… Read more »
From the American Academy of Neurology press release: Babies born at a very low birth weight are more likely to have memory and attention problems when they become adults than… Read more »
From the Association of Psychological Science press release: The witness points out the criminal in a police lineup. She swears she’d remember that face forever. Then DNA evidence shows she’s… Read more »
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: As we get older, our cognitive abilities change, improving when we’re younger and declining as we age. Scientists posit a hierarchical structure… Read more »
From the University of Rochester press release: The human brain is bombarded with a cacophony of information from the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. Now a team of scientists… Read more »
