More Than Just Memories: A New Role for the Hippocampus During Learning
A new role for the hippocampus involving pattern separation and conjunctive representation in reinforcement learning is discussed.... Read More...
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Life’s Purpose Rests in Brain’s Drive to Extract Meaning From the World
A new article questions what gives us purpose in life? Researchers speculate it is our drive to extract meaning from the world around us.... Read More...
From Lullabies to Live Concerts: How Music and Rhythm Shape Our Social Brains
Researchers reveal lullabies help sooth both baby and mom simultaneously. Additionally, playing music to babies help increase their attention and positive displays of emotion to their mothers.... Read More...
Can the Healthy Brain Offer Clues to Curing Alzheimer’s?
A new paper reports fully investigating the brain before the onset of dementia may herald clues for developing new treatments for Alzheimer's disease.... Read More...
Cognitive Neuroscience and the Awareness of Ignorance
Researchers shed light on areas of the brain associated with metacognitive judgement.... Read More...
Researchers Induce a Form of Synesthesia with Hypnosis
Hypnotic suggestion can trigger visual hallucinations similar to those experienced by people with synethesia, researchers report. ... Read More...
Debunking the Myth That OCD is Associated With Superior Intelligence
A new study disputes a myth popularized by Freud. Reporting in Neuropsychological Review, researchers say they have found no association between obsessive compulsive disorder and higher IQ.... Read More...
New Insight Into Self-Control Through Neuroimaging
A new neuroimaging study reveals self control varies depending on the importance of the decision. Self control, researchers note, may also be augmented when people are asked to justify their decisions.... Read More...
Don’t Count on Your Chickens Counting
Researchers contradict the accepted view that we biologically evolved a capacity for numerical cognition.... Read More...
Enlisting The Help of Machine Learning to Diagnose Depression
Researchers are utilizing neuroimaging data to identify brain patterns and predict depression with the help of machine learning.... Read More...
How Gamers Get Good
Consistent rituals and practice lead to better skilled video game players, a new study reports.... Read More...
Study Uncovers Details of Information Processing in the Brain
A new study looks at how our brains process information when we pay attention and attempt to ignore stimuli.... Read More...