Neuroscience

Achilles Ear: Our Recall For Sounds Is Worse Than For Sight And Touch

Our brains may not be optimized for recalling things we hear, the way we are good at remembering things we see or touch. Psychologists doing a study of over 100 University of Iowa college students found that they were less able to recall a variety of soun ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2014 - 6:49pm

Music Prodigies Beat Math Prodigies With Numbers And Art Prodigies Are Awful At Shapes

At age 6, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age 8, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do the brains of these two child prodigies have in common? ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 5 2014 - 1:30pm

Soundscapes: Training Blind People To See Shapes Using Sound

People born unable to see are readily capable of learning to perceive the shape of the human body through soundscapes that translate images into sound, according to a new article in Current Biology. With a little training, soundscapes representing the out ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2014 - 4:34pm

Physically Fit Teens Lead To Lower Risk Of Early Dementia

Maintaining physical health brings a variety of benefits- including for the brain. A new study affirms that but also finds that lower IQ in teen years is correlated to a higher risk of dementia before the age of 60. IQ doesn't really go up or down mu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2014 - 7:35pm

ADCY2 Gene Implicated In Bipolar Disorder

People with bipolar disorder, as much as one percent of the population, undergo a veritable roller coaster of emotions. They experience extreme shifts in mood, from manic phases with delusions of grandeur, increased drive and a decreased need for sleep as ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2014 - 3:09pm

Openness And The Brain's PMTG Are "Affective" And "Cognitive" Components Of Creativity

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Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 12 2014 - 7:00am

Dedicated Neuro-Highway: Human Brains Hard-Wired To Link What We See With What We Do

Researchers from University College Londonand Cambridge University says have found evidence of a specialized mechanism for spatial self-awareness that combines visual cues with body motion-  that our ability to instantly link what you see with what we do ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2014 - 10:38am

Take That, Canines: Humans Can Distinguish Over 1 Trillion Scents

Humans are creatures of sight, then we think in terms of feel and then sound. The human sense of smell does not get the credit it deserves, according to a new paper. In an experiment led by Andreas Keller, of Rockefeller's Laboratory of Neurogenetics ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 20 2014 - 2:43pm

Forgetful? It Might Be Your Genes, Not Senility

If you frequently experience cognitive lapses, there may be good news; psychologists say forgetting someone's name or losing your keys could be linked to the DRD2 gene.  Those who have a certain variant of this gene are more easily distracted and exp ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2014 - 11:34am

Occasional Drug Use Shows In The Brain

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say occasional use of  stimulant drugs, such as cocaine and amphetamines, and prescription drugs such as Adderall have shown up as  impaired neuronal activity in the parts of the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 25 2014 - 6:07pm