From the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) press release: Far from processing every word we read or hear, our brains often do not even notice key words that can change the whole meaning of…
From the Springer Science+Business Media press release via ScienceDaily: Can you teach an old dog (or human) new tricks? Yes, but it might take time, practice, and hard work before he or she gets it…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release via ScienceDaily: Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a cause-and-effect relationship between two well-established biological risk factors for schizophrenia previously believed to be independent of one another.…
From the Washington University in St. Louis press release by Michael C. Purdy via ScienceDaily: Scientists have assembled the most detailed chronology to date of the human brain’s long, slow slide into full-blown Alzheimer’s disease.…
From the Duke University Medical Center press release via MedicalXpress: Among patients with mild or no cognitive impairment, brain scans using a new radioactive dye can detect early evidence of Alzheimer’s disease that may predict…
From the National Academy of Sciences press release via Physorg: Educational and business leaders want today’s students both to master school subjects and to excel in areas such as problem solving, critical thinking, and communication…
From the Brown University press release via EurekAlert!: So far it has seemed an irreparable limitation of human perception that we strain to perceive things in the very rapid succession of, say, less than half…
From the Universiteit van Amsterdam press release via AlphaGalileo: In a forthcoming issue of Topics in Cognitive Science researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) argue that at least two, seemingly trivial musical skills can…
From the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center press release: Using a mouse model of autism, researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have successfully treated an autism spectrum…
From the University of Alberta press release via EurekAlert!: We’ve all heard that eating fish is good for our brains and memory. But what is it about DHA, an omega-3 fatty acid found in fish,…