25-year-old man recovering from a coma has made remarkable progress following a treatment at UCLA to jump-start his brain using ultrasound. The technique uses sonic stimulation to excite the neurons in the thalamus, an egg-shaped structure that serves as...
Precisely timed electrical stimulation to the left side of the brain can reliably and significantly enhance learning and memory performance by as much as 15 percent, according to a study by a team of University of Pennsylvania neuroscientists published...
Picture a little boy imitating his father shaving in the mirror or a little girl wobbling proudly in her mother's high heels.
From infancy, we learn by watching other people, then use those memories to help us predict outcomes and...
NYU researchers offer a new theory, based on a computational model, on how the brain separates relevant from irrelevant information in these and other circumstances.
Imagine yourself sitting in a noisy café trying to read. To focus on the book...
In contrast to previous studies, profit-related pay and employee share-ownership had a mix of negative and no significant effects on attitudes.Image Credit: Wikimedia
Incentive-related pay schemes can stress rather than motivate employees, according to new research by the University of...
Using the fMRI data, the researchers found that while listening to music, specific musical anhedonics presented a reduction in the activity of the Nucleus Accumbens, a key subcortical structure of the reward network. Image Credit: Flickr/Machrouh Med Sami
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Of all the challenges that come with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the social difficulties are among the most devastating. Currently, there is no treatment for this primary symptom of ASD. New research at the University at...
Telling someone else about what you've learned is a really effective way for students to study instead of just re-reading the textbook or class notes. Image Credit:Flickr/masaisrael
Students who get information, then re-tell it to someone immediately, recall it better...
Have you ever tried to solve a complicated maths problem by using your hands, or shaped a piece of clay without planning it out in your head first? Understanding how we think and make decisions by interacting with the...
At night, early risers demonstrate a quicker reaction time when solving unusual attention-related tasks than night owls, but these early risers make more mistakes along the way.Credit: © Pedro Ribeiro Simões / Flickr
It has been known for a long...
When the sleep-drive neurons turn on, it puts the fruit flies to sleep. And when the sleep-drive neurons are turned off in well-rested flies, the flies awaken.Credit: Johns Hopkins Medicine
Studying fruit flies, whose sleep is remarkably similar to that...
