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Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·September 12, 2020·2 min read

Exercise Improves Learning and Memory in Young Adults

Aerobic exercise for up to one hour at moderate to high intensity improves memory, attention, and learning for up to two hours.

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·August 20, 2020·6 min read

Paying Attention to the Neurons Behind Our Alertness

Researchers identify three populations of neurons in layer 6 of the cortex that contribute to alertness.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Visual Neuroscience

·August 19, 2020·3 min read

Toddlers Who Use Touchscreens Show Attention Differences

Toddlers who frequently use touchscreen technology may have an edge over their peers who are not routinely exposed to the technology when it comes to visual search abilities.

Featured Psychology

·August 4, 2020·2 min read

An Averted Glance Gives a Glimpse of the Mind Behind the Eyes

In socially awkward situations when a person is caught staring and averts their eyes, a third-party observer does not reflexively follow their gaze. The brain tells the observer there is no significance to the location where the embarrassed person has turned their attention.

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·August 3, 2020·5 min read

Experiencing Childhood Trauma Makes Body and Brain Age Faster

Children who experience early life adversity experience faster biological aging than children with no history of exposure to abuse. Trauma was associated with biological aging in early puberty, cellular aging, and alterations in brain structure. The findings may explain why children who experienced adversity early in life often suffer poor health as they age.

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Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·August 3, 2020·5 min read

Energy Demands Limit Our Brains’ Information Processing Capacity

Paying attention alters how the brain allocates its limited energy. As the brain uses more energy to process information we attend to, the less energy is supplied to processing outside our field of attention.

Featured Neuroscience

·July 10, 2020·6 min read

How the Brain Focuses While Ignoring Distractions

Mouse study pinpoints the precise location in the brain where distracting stimuli are blocked, allowing for concentration on specific tasks. The findings could have implications for the treatment of ADHD and schizophrenia.

Auditory Neuroscience Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles

·July 7, 2020·5 min read

Our Animal Inheritance: Humans Perk Up Ears When They Hear Interesting Sounds

It is well documented that animals perk up their ears when they hear a noise that captures their attention. A new study reveals humans also do the same. Researchers demonstrated humans make small, unconscious movements of their ears directed toward a sound that sparks attention.

Featured Psychology

·June 23, 2020·4 min read

Does ‘mommy brain’ last? Study shows motherhood does not diminish attention

Researchers scrutinize the long-held perception that new mothers are more forgetful and less attentive. Mothers, they found, have similar alerting and orienting attention, and better executive control attention compared to women without children.

Featured Neuroscience Open Neuroscience Articles Psychology

·June 20, 2020·4 min read

The relationship between looking and listening and human emotions

A new study reveals the relationship between attentional state and emotions from pupillary reactions. Visual perception elicits emotions in all attentional state, while auditory perception elicits emotions only when attention is paid to sounds.

Featured Neuroscience Visual Neuroscience

·May 12, 2020·4 min read

What we can’t see can help us find things

To spot a missing item, people are 20% faster at locating what they are looking for if they factor in latent physical traits, like hardness or softness.

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·May 12, 2020·4 min read

Our ability to focus may falter after eating one meal high in saturated fat

Women who ate a meal high in saturated fats performed worse on attention-based tests than women eating healthier meals. The findings reveal a potential link between high-fat diets and poor attention skills. Additionally, those with a condition called leaky gut, which allows bacteria from the intestines to enter the bloodstream, performed worse on attention tasks regardless of whether they ate a high-fat meal or chose a healthier option.

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