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·July 15, 2016·4 min read

Bird-Brained? Scientists Show Newborn Ducklings Can Acquire Notions of ‘Same’ and ‘Different’

A new study reveals newly hatched ducklings can quickly acquire the concepts of 'same' and 'different'.

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·June 9, 2016·4 min read

Sniffing You Out! Witnesses Can Catch Criminals With Smell

Could nose witnesses be just as reliable as eye witnesses when it comes to identifying criminals? A new study suggests they could be.

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·June 2, 2015·4 min read

Why It’s Hard To Remember Colors

Researchers explain why we have trouble recalling specific shades of color.

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·February 12, 2015·2 min read

Study Shows Older Adults Struggle to Recall Names When Music Is Playing

For older adults, background music can interfere with memory recall tasks.

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·January 21, 2015·2 min read

Researchers Find Where Visual Memories Are Made

Dramatic changes occur in the primary visual cortex when mice learn to distinguish novel from familiar visual stimuli, a new study reports.

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·September 23, 2014·3 min read

Brain Wave May Be Used to Detect What People Have Seen and Recognize

P300 brain waves may serve as markers to identify places, objects and other details a person recognizes in daily life, a new study reports.

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·August 11, 2014·2 min read

Important Advance in Brain Mapping and Memory

A new study sheds light on how visual information is transformed into short term memory.

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·March 18, 2014·4 min read

Out of Mind, Out of Sight

Suppressing unwanted memories disrupts traces of them in sensory processing areas and influences behavior, a new study reports.

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·February 26, 2014·3 min read

In One Ear and Out the Other

Researchers report when it comes to memory, we don't remember things we hear as well as things we see.

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·June 11, 2013·2 min read

Video Gamers Really Do See More

According to new research, playing video games not only trains the player's hands to work the controllers, they also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input.

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visual memory

Bird-Brained? Scientists Show Newborn Ducklings Can Acquire Notions of ‘Same’ and ‘Different’

Sniffing You Out! Witnesses Can Catch Criminals With Smell

Why It’s Hard To Remember Colors

Study Shows Older Adults Struggle to Recall Names When Music Is Playing

Researchers Find Where Visual Memories Are Made

Brain Wave May Be Used to Detect What People Have Seen and Recognize

Important Advance in Brain Mapping and Memory

Out of Mind, Out of Sight

In One Ear and Out the Other

Video Gamers Really Do See More

Familiar Faces and Fights: What Monkeys Like to Watch Most

Robot Achieves Complex Surgery Autonomously Through AI Training

Cancer Pathway Found to Weaken Brain and Eye Barriers

Memory Chooses Meaning Over Surface Similarities

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