From the University of Miami press release: What makes some people better able to resist temptation than others? Lucina Uddin and Jason Nomi, cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences…
From the Brown University press release: Just six months into the world, babies already have the capacity to learn, remember and use contextual cues in a scene to guide their search for objects of interest,…
From the University of Houston press release: Previous research has shown that animals can remember specific events, use tools and solve problems. But exactly what that means — whether they are making rational decisions or…
From the National University of Singapore press release: Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have recently discovered a mechanism that could explain how the brain retains working memory when faced with distractions. These…
From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: Our whole life we have to make decisions and weigh up probabilities of different events. By learning to estimate which event is more…
From the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona press release: Researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (INc-UAB) and the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) are the first to demonstrate that regulation of…
From the Stanford University Medical Center press release: Stanford University investigators have for the first time tied several brain circuits to alertness. The findings enhance scientists’ understanding of the forces driving alertness, a brain state…
From the Research Society on Alcoholism press release: Although drinking by U.S. adolescents has decreased during the last decade, more than 20 percent of U.S. high-school students continue to drink alcohol before the age of 14…
From the University of Southern California press release: A type of hormone replacement therapy may protect memory for some women, according to a new USC-led study. The findings by USC researchers are the latest to…
From the Elsevier press release: Healthy people experiencing subtle symptoms observed in psychotic disorders, such as hallucinations and delusions, have altered brain dynamics, according to a new study published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and…