From the Binghamton University press release: Increased letter spacing helps individuals read faster, but not due to visual processing, according to new research from Binghamton University, State University of New York. “Generally speaking, our lab…
From the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care press release: Everyone has experienced the awkward situation of meeting someone and then forgetting their name shortly after. Among older adults, this happens more often than not. Baycrest…
From the DZNE – German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases press release: Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease (DZNE) have found a possible explanation for the difficulty in spatial orientation experienced sometimes by elderly…
From the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University – OIST press release: The process we call learning is in fact a well-orchestrated symphony of thousands of molecular reactions, but the exact interplay between…
From the FECYT – Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology press release: During the hours of sleep the memory performs a cleaning shift. A study led by a Spanish scientist at the University of Cambridge…
From the University of Sussex press release: Learning a new language may be more of a science than an art, a University of Sussex study finds. Psychologists found that when we learn the names of…
From the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign press release: By peering at the brains of study subjects prompted to suppress negative emotions, scientists have gained new insights into how emotional regulation influences negative feelings and…
From the Salk Institute press release: Those of us who can’t resist tourist tchotchkes are big fans of suitcases with an expandable compartment. Now, it turns out the brain’s capacity for storing new memories is…
From the University of Calgary press release: In a new study in Nature Neuroscience, Jaideep Bains, PhD, and his team at the Cumming School of Medicine’s Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI), at the University of Calgary have…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: In a scientific first, researchers have observed in mice how the brain learns to repeat patterns of neural activity that elicit the all-important feel-good sensation. Until…