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Featured Neuroscience

·March 31, 2011·2 min read

The Brain Against Words in the Mirror

Most people can read texts reflected in a mirror slowly and with some effort, but a team of scientists from...

Psychology

·April 26, 2012·1 min read

Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief: UBC Psych Study

A new University of British Columbia study finds that analytic thinking can decrease religious belief, even in devout believers. The...

Featured Psychology

·May 14, 2012·2 min read

Let There Be Light: It’s Good for Our Brains

EPFL scientists have proven that light intensity influences our cognitive performance and how alert we feel, and that these positive...

Neurology

·May 18, 2012·1 min read

Cognitive Effect of Head Impacts on Student Athletes

Dartmouth researchers investigate the cognitive effects of athlete head impacts. Dartmouth faculty and students played prominent roles in a recent...

Featured Neuroscience

·May 22, 2012·3 min read

A Study of Magic and Illusions Offers Insight into Perception and Cognition

Barrow researchers use magic for discoveries Researchers at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center have unveiled...

Featured Psychology

·May 23, 2012·3 min read

Robust White Matter Helps Keep Us Smart As We Age

Well-connected brains make you smarter in older age Brains that maintain healthy nerve connections as we age help keep us...

Featured Neuroscience

·May 24, 2012·4 min read

Persistent Changes to Sensory Experience can Promote Rewiring of Aging Brain

Max Planck Florida Institute Study Shows: Persistent Sensory Experience Is Good For The Aging Brain Despite a long-held scientific belief...

Featured Neuroscience

·May 29, 2012·2 min read

Solvent Exposure in Work Place Associated With Cognitive Problems in Less Educated Workers

Working with solvents tied to cognitive problems for less-educated people Exposure to solvents at work may be associated with reduced...

Electrophysiology Featured Neuroscience

·July 19, 2012·6 min read

Scientists Read Monkeys’ Inner Thoughts

By decoding brain activity, scientists were able to 'see' that 2 monkeys were planning to approach the same reaching task differently - even before they moved a muscle.

Neurology Neuroscience Business

·July 19, 2012·2 min read

Anti-Tau Drug Improves Cognition, Decreases Tau Tangles in Alzheimer’s Disease Models

Penn Medicine research presented today at the 2012 Alzheimer's Association International Conference shows that an anti-tau treatment called epithilone D (EpoD) was effective in preventing and intervening the progress of Alzheimer's disease in animal models, improving neuron function and cognition, as well as decreasing tau pathology.

Featured Psychology

·July 25, 2012·4 min read

Sum of the Parts? How Our Brains See Men as People and Women as Body Parts

Study finds that both genders process images of men, women differently.

Featured Neuroscience

·August 1, 2012·4 min read

Brain Imaging Can Predict How Intelligent You Are, Study Finds

Research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that another 10 percent of individual differences in intelligence can be explained by the strength of neural pathways connecting the left lateral prefrontal cortex to the rest of the brain.

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cognition

The Brain Against Words in the Mirror

Analytic Thinking Can Decrease Religious Belief: UBC Psych Study

Let There Be Light: It’s Good for Our Brains

Cognitive Effect of Head Impacts on Student Athletes

Robust White Matter Helps Keep Us Smart As We Age

Persistent Changes to Sensory Experience can Promote Rewiring of Aging Brain

Solvent Exposure in Work Place Associated With Cognitive Problems in Less Educated Workers

Scientists Read Monkeys’ Inner Thoughts

Anti-Tau Drug Improves Cognition, Decreases Tau Tangles in Alzheimer’s Disease Models

Brain Imaging Can Predict How Intelligent You Are, Study Finds

The Vegetarian Code: Your Genes Might Dictate Your Diet

Graphene Oxide Nanoflakes May Be A Potential Ally Against Alzheimer’s

Savoring Bytes: New AI Understands Our Tasty Desires

Single Protein Rewires the Brain to Adapt to Motherhood

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