From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology press release: When we experience a new event, our brain records a memory of not only what happened, but also the context, including the time and location of the…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau press release: In almost all successful advertising campaigns, an appeal to emotion sparks a call-to-action that motivates viewers to become consumers. But according to research from…
From the University of Ottawa press release: The famous patient Henry Molaison (long known as H.M.) suffered damage to his hippocampus after a surgical attempt to cure his epilepsy. As a result, he had anterograde…
From the Karolinska Institutet press release: Individuals with high ADHD-traits that do not meet the criteria for a diagnosis are less able to perform tasks involving attentional regulation or emotional control after a sleepless night…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather,…
From the UT Southwestern Medical Center press release: Two studies led by UT Southwestern researchers shed new light on how the brain encodes time and place into memories. The findings, published recently in PNAS and Science, not only…
From the BMJ press release: The evidence for the harmful effects of alcohol on brain health is compelling, but now experts have pin-pointed three key time periods in life when the effects of alcohol are…
From the University of Rochester Medical Center press release: While the broad architecture and organization of the human brain is universal, new research shows how the differences between how people reimagine common scenarios can be…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: Contrary to previous assumptions, visual short-term memory is not merely based on one kind of information about an object, such as only its colour or only its name. Rather,…
From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: If you open your office door one morning and there is a new package waiting on your desk, that’s what you will notice most in the otherwise…