Psychology & Psychiatry
Smartphone gaming can be harmful for some seeking relief from boredom
Smartphone gaming can be harmful to players who game to escape their negative mood and feelings of boredom, a new study has found.
Jul 21, 2021
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News tagged with cognitive neuroscience
Neuroscience
Neural mechanism of autonomous learning uncovered
Thanks to so-called 'deep learning," a subset of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms inspired by the brain, machines can match human performance in perception and language recognition and even outperform humans in certain ...
May 3, 2021
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Neuroscience
What Parkinson's disease patients reveal about how art is experienced and valued
Art appreciation is considered essential to human experience. While taste in art varies depending on the individual, cognitive neuroscience can provide clues about how viewing art affects our neural systems, and evaluate ...
Apr 23, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Whether it's 2020 or Baby Shark, study offers clues on how to stop thinking about it
"Let it go." "Think about something else." "Clear your head."
Dec 18, 2020
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Neuroscience
Discovery of 'thought worms' opens window to the mind
Queen's University researchers uncover brain-based marker of new thoughts and discover we have more than 6,000 thoughts each day.
Jul 14, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Smart people may learn music faster
Why do some people learn music more quickly than others?
Nov 15, 2019
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Neuroscience
Research sheds new light on how the brain forms and recalls memories
Neuroscientists at the University of Birmingham have proved how different parts of the human brain work together to create and retrieve episodic memory.
Oct 10, 2019
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Neuroscience
Researchers link aging with changes in brain networks related to cognition
Functional regions within the brain become less distinct and interconnected in the elderly over time, especially in those networks related to attention span and cognition. The finding, published by researchers at Duke-NUS ...
Jul 12, 2019
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Neuroscience
Beatboxers' and guitarists' brains react differently to hearing music
The brains of professional beatboxers and guitarists respond to music differently when compared to each other and non-musicians, finds a new UCL-led study.
Sep 5, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Brain game doesn't offer brain gain
A new study led by a team of Western University neuroscientists has debunked claims that getting better at a brain training game can translate to improved performance in other, untrained cognitive tasks.
Jul 30, 2018
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