Neuroscience

Constant Rewrites: Your Memory Isn't All That Accurate

an existing memory. All that editing happens in the hippocampus, they write. The hippocampus, in this ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 5 2014 - 6:51pm

Empathy Is Impetus For Sharing In All Primates, Says Study

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have shown capuchin monkeys, just like humans, find giving to be a satisfying experience. This finding comes on the coattails of a recent imaging study in humans that documented ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 25 2008 - 4:31pm

Getting All A's But Flunking Life- IQ Scores Climb As Creativity Sinks

Almost 30 years ago philosopher James Flynn discovered that IQ scores were increasing in every industrialized country around the globe. But before we pat ourselves on back, Bronson and Merryman warn us that we may be in the midst of a Creativity Crisis. Al ...

Article - Drs. Fernette and... - Jul 30 2010 - 10:10am

Early Musical Training Benefits The Brain All Life Long

Older adults who took music lessons as children but hadn't actively played an instrument in decades have faster brain responses to sounds than those who never played an instrument, according to a study appearing in the Journal of Neuroscience.  As pe ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 5 2013 - 6:14pm

Learning New Skills: It's All About Flexing The Brain

Learning a new skill is easier when it is related to an ability we already have. For example, a trained pianist can learn a new melody easier than learning how to hit a tennis serve. Scientists from the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC) have ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 29 2014 - 2:22pm

Trump’s Cuban Insight Trumps Fidel Kaepernick’s Caper Part 2

and he figures into all of this because he announced that Castro was a loser and he was going to ...

Article - Alex Durig - Dec 20 2016 - 12:38pm

Complex Machinery in the Neuron, Vesicle Budding and Fusion, Transcription, and More

process which attention triggers to form stronger neuronal connections utilizes all the cell mechanisms ...

Blog Post - Jon Lieff MD - Mar 12 2012 - 5:21pm

Harnessed: The Reading Instinct

machines we are often believed to be (something he has argued in all his books). And Pinker’s arguments ...

Article - Mark Changizi - Jun 2 2010 - 3:05pm

Get Ready For A Bionic Eye

trial of the first generation of implants continues at the Doheny Eye Institute at USC. All six ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2007 - 10:29am

UK Transgender Individuals 3X More Likely To Be Autistic

mathematics group is predominantly male and have higher educational attainment (all have at least an ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 7 2020 - 12:58pm