From the Northwestern University press release: Scientists have long known the brain’s hippocampus is crucial for long-term memory. Now a new Northwestern Medicine study has found the hippocampus also plays… Read more »
From the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry press release: The University of Alberta-led research followed more than 400 infants from the CHILD Cohort Study (CHILD) at its… Read more »
From the Rockefeller University press release: Scientists have long searched in vain for a class of brain cells that could explain the visceral flash of recognition that we feel when… Read more »
From the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft press release: Fast reactions to future events are crucial. A boxer, for example, needs to respond to her opponent in fractions of a second in order to… Read more »
From the Osaka University press release: As humans, we each have a powerful ability to easily recognize our own face. But now, researchers from Japan have uncovered new information about… Read more »
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Development press release: Human decision-making depends on the flexible processing of complex information, but how the brain may adapt processing to momentary task… Read more »
From the University of Birmingham press release: While we sleep, the brain produces particular activation patterns. When two of these patterns — slow oscillations and sleep spindles — gear into… Read more »
From the Cell Press press release: A common factor called “decision acuity” underpins diverse decision-making abilities in adolescents and young adults, suggests a study appearing May 20th in the journal Neuron…. Read more »
From the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience press release: Has your heart ever started to race at the thought of an upcoming deadline for work? Or has the sight… Read more »
From the Yale University press release: One trait shared by all humans is that they don’t remember specific life episodes that occurred before the age of 3 or 4. Many… Read more »
