From the Dartmouth College press release: You may perceive the world the way your friends do, according to a Dartmouth study finding that friends have similar neural responses to real-world stimuli and these similarities can…
From the Ghent University press release: Previously, research has shown that children at risk of an autism diagnosis respond less to hearing their own name. Now, a new study from the research group EXPLORA of…
From the University of California – Davis press release: Virtual reality is helping neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis, get new insight into how different brain areas assemble memories in context. In a study…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release: People with Alzheimer’s disease are known to have disturbances in their internal body clocks that affect the sleep/wake cycle and may increase risk of developing the…
From the University of Jyväskylä press release: How your brain responds to music listening can reveal whether you have received musical training, according to new Nordic research conducted in Finland (University of Jyväskylä and AMI…
From the University of Colorado at Boulder press release: Ask a nonscientist what memories are made of and you’ll likely conjure images of childhood birthday parties or wedding days. Charles Hoeffer thinks about proteins. For…
From the University of California – Riverside press release: Pick a hand, any hand. That familiar refrain, repeated in schoolyards the world over, is the basis of a simple guessing game that was recently adapted…
From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: We categorize pretty much everything we see, and remarkably, we often achieve that feat whether the items look patently similar — like Fuji and McIntosh apples — or…
From the Stanford University Medical Center press release: For the first time, scientists have identified the brain pathway that links a positive attitude toward math to achievement in the subject. In a study of elementary…
From the Center for BrainHealth press release: Relentless cognitive decline as we age is worrisome, and it is widely thought to be an unavoidable negative aspect of normal aging. Researchers at the Center for BrainHealth…