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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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,… Read more »
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,… Read more »
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,… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
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… Read more »
From the University of Sussex press release: A study by scientists at the University of Sussex is challenging the common understanding of how mammalian brains work. The research, published in Current… Read more »
From the University of Leicester press release: Neuroscience experts from the University of Leicester have released research that breaks with the past fifty years of neuroscientific opinion, arguing that the… Read more »
