From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: A Baycrest Health Sciences researcher and clinician has developed the first group language intervention that helps individuals losing the ability to speak due to a rare form…
From the Penn State press release: Despite conventional wisdom that suggests women are better than men at facial recognition, Penn State psychologists found no difference between men and women in their ability to recognize faces…
From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology press release: The way bilingual people read is conditioned by the languages they speak. This is the main conclusion reached by researchers at the Basque Center…
From the University of Bonn press release: Memory performance decreases with increasing age. Cannabis can reverse these ageing processes in the brain. This was shown in mice by scientists at the University of Bonn with…
From the American Academy of Pediatrics press release: New research at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting shows that reading books with a child beginning in early infancy can boost vocabulary and reading skills four…
From the University of Maryland press release: Could the initiation of a simple walking exercise program help older adults to reverse declines in key brain regions? A new study led by University of Maryland School…
From the American Academy of Pediatrics press release: Scientists already know early lead exposure can slow a child’s cognitive and language development. Findings of an abstract being presented at the 2017 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting…
From the Penn State press release: Like air-traffic controllers scrambling to reconnect flights when a major hub goes down, the brain has a remarkable ability to rewire itself after suffering an injury. However, maintaining these…
From the DOE/Sandia National Laboratories press release: Your Saturday Salsa club or Introductory Italian class might be even better for you than you thought. According to Sandia National Laboratories cognitive scientist Mike Trumbo, learning a…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: Studies have suggested a link between fitness and memory, but researchers have struggled to find the mechanism that links them. A new study by University of Illinois…