From the Karolinska Institutet press release: Measuring what are known as ‘executive functions’, which reflect the cognitive ability to deal with sudden problems, may make it possible to predict how good an elite football player…
From the Elsevier press release via EurekAlert!: Depressed individuals with a tendency to ruminate on negative thoughts, i.e. to repeatedly think about particular negative thoughts or memories, show different patterns of brain network activation compared…
From the Scripps Research Institute press release via AlphaGalileo: Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that the loss of memory that comes with aging is not…
From the Cognitive Neuroscience Society press release via EurekAlert!: The brains of people with anorexia and obesity are wired differently, according to new research. Neuroscientists for the first time have found that how our brains…
From the Suomen Akatemia (Academy of Finland) press release via AlphaGalileo: Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one’s surroundings.…
From the Rush University Medical Center press release via EurekAlert!: Two new studies published in the April 4 online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggest that a person’s…
From the University of Pittsburgh press release: A team of University of Pittsburgh mathematicians is using computational models to better understand how the structure of neural variability relates to such functions as short-term memory and…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: How do we know what a lemon is, or a baseball? “Theories that explain how our brains store knowledge say that similar knowledge is stored in similar…
From the Georgetown University press release: A first-of-its kind series of brain studies shows how an adult learning a foreign language can come to use the same brain mechanisms as a native speaker. The research…
From the PLoS press release via MedicalXPress: A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to efficiently adapt to uncertain, changing and open-ended environments. In such environments, efficient adaptive behavior often requires considering multiple alternative…