From the Max Planck Institute press release: Holding information within one’s memory for a short while is a seemingly simple and everyday task. We use our short-term memory when remembering a new telephone number if…
From the Georgetown University Medical Center press release: Scientists have long believed that human speech is processed towards the back of the brain’s cerebral cortex, behind auditory cortex where all sounds are received — a…
From the University of Montreal press release via EurekAlert!: Attentiveness in kindergarten accurately predicts the development of “work-oriented” skills in school children, according to a new study published by Dr. Linda Pagani, a professor and…
From the MIT press release: MIT postdoc Emile Bruneau has long been drawn to conflict — not as a participant, but an observer. In 1994, while doing volunteer work in South Africa, he witnessed firsthand…
From the Temple University press release: A protein recently discovered in the brain could play a key role in regulating the creation of amyloid beta, the major component of plaques implicated in the development of…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release via EurekAlert!: Men may be at higher risk of experiencing mild cognitive impairment (MCI), or the stage of mild memory loss that occurs between normal aging and…
From the Springer press release via AlphaGalileo: Spanish researchers, led by Pedro Carmona from the Instituto de Estructura de la Materia in Madrid, have uncovered a new promising way to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease more accurately.…
From the Children’s Medical Hospital press release via MedicalXPress: Children at risk for dyslexia show differences in brain activity on MRI scans even before they begin learning to read, finds a study at Children’s Hospital…
From the University of Missouri press release: While it may appear that infants are helpless creatures that only blink, eat, cry and sleep, one University of Missouri researcher says that studies indicate infant brains come…
From the UC Berkeley press release: A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, provides even more reason for people to read a book or do a puzzle, and to make…