From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: Columbia scientists have identified a brain region that helps tell an animal when to attack an intruder and when to accept it into its home. This…
From the Wiley press release: A new British Journal of Psychology study has looked at the details behind how cognitive performance may improve during aerobic exercise. Electroencephalography readings were taken as 24 participants performed a visual working…
From the McGill University press release: People who have better spatial memory are also better at identifying odors, according to a study published this week in Nature Communications. The study builds on a recent theory that…
From the University of Birmingham press release: Identical brain mechanisms are responsible for triggering memory in both sleep and wakefulness, new research at the University of Birmingham has shown. The study sheds new light on…
From the Michigan State University press release: Researchers at Michigan State University conducted the largest experimentally controlled study on sleep deprivation to date, revealing just how detrimental operating without sleep can be in everything from…
From the Cell Press press release: Humans have the ability to creatively combine their memories to solve problems and draw new insights, a process that depends on memories for specific events known as episodic memory.…
From the Ruhr-University Bochum press release: Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and the University Hospital of Gießen and Marburg, in collaboration with colleagues from Bonn, the Netherlands, and the UK, have analysed what happens in the…
From the RIKEN press release: Sleep is known to allow animals to re-energize themselves and consolidate memories. Rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, a mysterious stage of sleep in which animals dream, is known to play…
From the Uppsala University press release: Breaking with the long-held idea that working memory has fixed limits, a new study by researchers at Uppsala University and New York University suggests that these limits adapt themselves…
From the University of Chichester press release: Have you ever been shopping and returned home to find that you have forgotten to buy the very item you went shopping for? Have you known it was…