Eye-tracking reveals the brain pays more attention to conventional metaphors than it does to similar alternatives.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Looking Beyond the Individual Brain to Study the Collective Mind
In order to better understand the role that knowledge serves in human intelligence, it is essential to look beyond the individual and focus studies on the community overall, researchers say.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Hit the Sleep Sweet Spot to Keep Brain Sharp
Too much or too little sleep were both linked to increased risk of cognitive decline, researchers report.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: What Happens in Your Brain When You Make a Decision?
Researchers examine the neuroscience behind why we make certain decisions when faced with multiple choices.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Discovery of New Role for the Brain’s Immune Cells Could Have Alzheimer’s Implications
Study reveals microglia play an important role in the maintenance of blood delivery to the brain. The findings may prove important to the study and treatment of cognitive decline, dementia, and stroke.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: How Highly Processed Foods Harm Memory in the Aging Brain
A diet high in processed foods leads to neuroinflammation and memory decline in older rats, a new study reports. Supplementing a processed food diet with DHA, an omega 3 fatty acid, helped mitigate memory problems and reduce inflammation.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Does the Brain Learn in the Same Way That Machines Learn?
Relating machine learning to biological learning, researchers say while the two approaches aren’t interchangeable, they can be harnessed to offer insights into how the human brain works.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Gorillas Can Tell Human Voices Apart
Gorillas not only recognize familiar human voices, they can also connect the voices to pleasant, or not-so-pleasant memories of the person.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Warning Signs for Dementia in the Blood
Researchers say levels of microRNA in the blood may be a reliable new biomarker for diagnosing mild cognitive impairment and other forms of dementia.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Teaching Ancient Brains New Tricks: Study Shows How Modern Physicists Think
Evaluating the brains of modern physicists, researchers shed light on how the brain organizes highly abstract scientific concepts.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Common Chemicals in Electronics and Baby Products Harm Brain Development
Exposure to even low levels of common chemicals called organophosphate esters can harm IQ, memory, learning, and brain development overall in young children.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Smoggier Skies, Lower Scores? Air Pollution Impacts Cognitive Performance of Students
An increase of 10 micrograms per cubic meter of PM10 air pollution on examination days reduced students’ test scores by 8% on average, a new study reports.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease May Be Detectable Before Significant Symptoms Are Obvious
People with genetic risks for Alzheimer’s disease may exhibit changes in brain structure and reduced performance in cognitive tests long before symptoms of the neurodegenerative disease become obvious.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Clean Air Matters for a Healthy Brain
Recent studies have linked air pollution to increased risks for Alzheimer’s disease and other health problems. A new study reports a reduction of atmospheric fine particulates and better air quality can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Chemotherapy Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s Symptoms in Mice
Axitinib, a chemotherapy drug that inhibits the growth of new blood vessels in the brain, improved memory and cognition in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Sense of Purpose Associated With Better Memory
While sense of purpose and cognitive function improved memory recall, sense of purpose alone boosted vividness and coherence in memory.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Intestinal Drug Shown to Boost Memory and Cognition
Prucalopride, a medication commonly prescribed to treat constipation, may help improve memory and cognition. People prescribed the drug for 6 days performed better in memory tests and had increased activity in brain areas associated with cognition.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: What Our Wandering Thoughts Can Teach Us About Mental Health
Ten minutes of idle thought can tell us a lot about the potential risk of depression, researchers say. Those who tend to ruminate and were more past or negatively focused in their idle thoughts had an increased risk of depression.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Early Accumulation of Tau in the Brain Predicts Memory Decline in Alzheimer’s Disease
PET study finds early accumulation of the tau protein in the brain is a better predictor of Alzheimer’s associated memory decline than amyloid plaque accumulation or cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers.
Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Our Choices May Be Making Us More Individualistic
Salient choice alone can have a powerful range of psychological effects, including the personal empowerment of an individual.
