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 Baylor College of Medicine press release: A team led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University has developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that help them better understand the brain computations…
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…
From the American Academy of Neurology press release: Older women who live in locations with higher levels of air pollution may have more brain shrinkage, the kind seen in Alzheimer’s disease, than women who live…
From the Society for Neuroscience press release: Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization, but production does not, according…
From the Georgia State University press release: We all run from a burning building the same way–fast!–but how we describe it depends on the language we speak. In some languages, we might flee, race, or…
From the Zuckerman Institute at Columbia University press release: Our minds can help us make decisions by contemplating the future and predicting the consequences of our actions. Imagine, for instance, trying to find your way…
From the Johns Hopkins University press release: Researchers discovered that a specific brain region monitors food preferences as they change across thirsty and quenched states. By targeting neurons in that part of the brain, they…
From the Picower Institute at MIT press release: The attentional control that organisms need to succeed in their goals comes from two abilities: the focus to ignore distractions and the discipline to curb impulses. A…
From the Elsevier press release: Sleep is crucial for consolidating our memories, and sleep deprivation has long been known to interfere with learning and memory. Now a new study shows that getting only half a night’s sleep…