From the University of Rochester Medical Center press release via ScienceDaily: In a perspective piece appearing today in the journal Science, researchers at University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) point to a newly discovered system…
From the University of Iowa press release via ScienceDaily: When young children gaze intently at something or furrow their brows in concentration, you know their minds are busily at work. But you’re never entirely sure…
From the Rutgers University press release via MedicalXpress: The day of the big barbecue arrives and it’s time to fire up the grill. But rather than toss the hamburgers and hotdogs haphazardly onto the grate,…
From the North Carolina State University press release via ScienceDaily: Computer science researchers have programmed a computer to play the game Concentration (also known as Memory). The work could help improve computer security — and…
From the Yale University press release via EurekAlert!: The ability to maintain mental representations of ourselves and the world — the fundamental building block of human cognition — arises from the firing of highly evolved…
From the University of Oregon press release via EurekAlert!: An eight-week intervention involving 141 preschoolers in a Head Start program and their parents produced significant improvements in the children’s behavior and brain functions supporting attention…
From the MIT press release by Anne Trafton via HealthCanal: Our daily routines can become so ingrained that we perform them automatically, such as taking the same route to work every day. Some behaviors, such…
From the University of Helsinki press release via EurekAlert!: A research group led by professor Jesper Ekelund showed that by giving a very large dose of famotidine (200 mg daily), sufficient amounts of the drug…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release via HealthCanal: A study from Karolinska Institutet shows, that our imagination may affect how we experience the world more than we perhaps think. What we imagine hearing or seeing…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: People can plan strategic movements to several different targets at the same time, even when they see far fewer targets than are actually present, according to a…