From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Supplementing children’s diets with fish oil, enrolling them in quality preschool, and engaging them in interactive reading all turn out to be effective ways to raise a…
From the University of Utah press release via EurekAlert!: Most people believe they can multitask effectively, but a University of Utah study indicates that people who multitask the most – including talking on a cell…
From the Society of Nuclear Medicine press release via EurekAlert!: Only recently has it become possible to create high-quality images of the brain plaques characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease in living people through positron emission tomography…
From the University of Chicago Press Journals press release via EurekAlert!: Consumers systematically mispredict both the selling and purchase prices of other consumers due to a lack of cognitive and emotional connection, according to a…
From the Association for Psychological Science press release: Some retailers, such as Apple’s iTunes, are known for using uniform pricing in an effort to simplify consumers’ choices and perhaps increase their tendency to make impulse…
From the Concordia University press release: Language mixing – using elements from two languages in the same sentence – is frequent among bilingual parents and could pose a challenge for vocabulary acquisition by one- and…
From the IOS Press press release via EurekAlert!: Approximately half a million individuals suffer strokes in the US each year, and about one in five develops some form of post-stroke aphasia, the partial or total…
From the BioMed Central Limited press release via ScienceDaily: The pattern of blood flow in the prefrontal cortex in the brains alters with age during multi-tasking, finds a new study in BioMed Central’s open access…
From the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) press release via ScienceDaily: Seniors who have spoken two languages since childhood are faster than single-language speakers at switching from one task to another, according to a study published…
From the Brandeis University press release via MedicalXpress: Have you ever driven to work so deep in thought that you arrive safely yet can’t recall the drive itself? And if so, what part of “you”…