We've all asked ourselves these types of questions: Where did I leave my keys? What was his name? Where did I park my car?
As people grow older their memory tend to get poorer, so finding ways to improve it...
A new study in the model organism of tadpoles reveals how the brain develops the ability to sense when different sensory inputs are simultaneous rather than close in time. Credit: Courtesy Carlos Aizenman
Most people encounter most things by sensing...
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...
It may sound like sci-fy, but mind reading equipment are much closer to become a reality than most people can imagine. A new study carried out at D'Or Institute for Research and Education used a Magnetic Resonance (MR) machine...
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Researchers from the Universities of Groningen (Netherlands) and Pennsylvania have discovered a piece in the puzzle of how sleep deprivation negatively affects memory.
For the first time, a study in mice, to be published in the journal eLife, shows...
This density map of the cerebral cortex of a mouse shows which neurons get activated when the animal explores of a new environment. The lit up region at the center (white and yellow) represents neurons associated with the mouse's...
Fathers given boosts of the hormone oxytocin show increased activity in brain regions associated with reward and empathy when viewing photos of their toddlers, a new study finds.Image credit:Flickr/Ashley Webb
Fathers given boosts of the hormone oxytocin show increased activity...
A visualization of the brain, reconstructed from MRI scans, shows tracts of white matter connecting different regions of the brain to one another. A new study that uses computational modeling to investigate brain stimulation finds that stimulating network hubs...
A new research suggests that dogs may be even more like us than previously thought. Image credit: Flickr/Donnie Ray Jones
Most dog owners will tell you they consider their beloved pets to be members of their families. Now new research...
This picture shows 3-D reconstructions of electron microscope images of tree branch-like dendrites. At the end of the branches are cup-like structures called the spines, and in the tips of the spines are synapses. By studying thousands of images...
Bilingual people are great at saving brain power,a new study says. Image credit: Flickr/jurek_durczak
A research team established that years of bilingualism change how the brain carries out tasks that require concentrating.
New research findings show that bilingual people are great...
