From the University of Exeter press release: Older adults who regularly take part in word and number puzzles have sharper brains, according to the largest online study to date. The more regularly adults aged 50…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: Sometimes in life there are special places that seem to stand out to us — a school playground, perhaps an old church,…
From the Duke Department of Neurology press release: Magnetic stimulation of the brain improves working memory, offering a new potential avenue of therapy for individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, according…
From the Johns Hopkins Medicine press release: In a records review of 290 people at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, scientists at Johns Hopkins say they have identified an average level of biological and anatomical brain…
From the press release: A team of psychologists has found strong associations between working memory — a fundamental building block of a functioning mind — and three health-related factors: sleep, age, and depressed mood. The…
From the University of Bristol press release: New research by the University of Bristol has found that early life adversity could make an individual more at risk of developing negative thinking, which could lead to…
From the Wiley press release: Interactions between a mother and her child have been linked to cognitive outcomes in childhood, but little work has looked at farther-reaching effects. In a Journal of Marriage & Family study that…
From the University of Delaware press release: For most native English-speakers, learning the Mandarin Chinese language from scratch is no easy task. Learning it in a class that essentially compresses a one-semester college course into…
From the University of Cambridge press release: Researchers have identified how the human brain is able to determine the properties of a particular object using purely statistical information: a result which suggests there is an…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: How sensory perception in the brain affects learning and memory processes is far from fully understood. Two neuroscientists of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) have discovered a new aspect of how…