Diverse linguistic environment boosts brain sensitivity to new learning
Living in a linguistically diverse environment helps promote more effective learning of new languages for monolingual people.... Read More...
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Researchers investigate how important intelligence and practice are in chess
Both intelligence and practice positively affect the acquisition and retention of stress skills.... Read More...
High-fat diet in utero protects against Alzheimer’s later
High-fat diets during pregnancy may protect the developing brain from Alzheimer's in those with genetic risk factors. ... Read More...
High fat diet during pregnancy slows learning in offspring
Maternal exposure to a high-fat diet during pregnancy and lactation can have a lasting, detrimental effect on the cognitive ability and behaviors of their offspring. ... Read More...
Carriers of Alzheimer’s genetic marker have greater difficulty harnessing past knowledge
Middle-aged people with the Alzheimer's related APOE4 gene have a harder time accessing recently acquired knowledge, even when they show no symptoms of memory decline.... Read More...
Babbling babies’ behavior changes parents’ speech
Parents unconsciously modify their speech to include fewer unique words, shorter sentences, and one-word replies when their baby babbles, but not when they are simply speaking to the baby.... Read More...
Fake news can lead to false memories
Fabricated news stories cause people to create false memories, especially if the content of the stories align with their political beliefs. While people who scored low on cognitive tests were no more prone to forming false memories, they were more likely to remember false facts that aligned with their opinions. People with higher cognitive ability are more likely to question their personal biases and the news source.... Read More...
Engaging educational videos elicit similar brain activity in students
Higher similarity in brain activity was noted while students watched educational clips they ranked as most appealing. The findings could help content creators to use neuroscience data in the creation of strong educational materials.... Read More...
A map of the brain can tell what you’re reading
fMRI brain scans reveal semantic tuning during both reading and listening to words are highly correlated in selective areas of the cerebral cortex. The new brain maps enabled researchers to accurately predict which words would active specific regions of the cortex.... Read More...
How deep space travel could affect the brain
Low dose radiation exposure causes neural and behavioral impairments in mouse models that affect memory and learning. ... Read More...
The ‘blowfish effect’: Children learn new words like adults do
Both adults and young children assign a narrower interpretation to a word if it is exemplified by an atypical category member. The study sheds new light on how children learn to see, talk and understand the world around them.... Read More...
Study Advances Understanding of How Brains Remember Decisions
The medial prefrontal cortex persistently encodes value based decision variables.... Read More...