News tagged with cognitive scientists

The party in your brain

A team of political scientists and neuroscientists has shown that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they make risky decisions, and these regions can be used to predict which political party ...

Neuroscience Feb 13, 2013 | 5 / 5 (4) | 3 |

Your brain on Big Bird: Sesame Street helps to reveal patterns of neural development

Using brain scans of children and adults watching Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children's brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math.

Neuroscience Jan 03, 2013 | not rated yet | 0 |

Brief exercise immediately enhances memory, researchers find

(Medical Xpress)—A short burst of moderate exercise enhances the consolidation of memories in both healthy older adults and those with mild cognitive impairment, scientists with UC Irvine's Center for the Neurobiology of ...

Neuroscience Nov 27, 2012 | 5 / 5 (6) | 0 |

Researchers devise a way to manipulate a rat's dreams

(Medical Xpress)—Cognitive scientists working at MIT have devised a means for not only altering the dreams of rats, but of demonstrating a way of testing what they've achieved, offering evidence that it can ...

Neuroscience Sep 06, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

New study identifies the QWERTY effect, or how typing shapes the meaning of words

Words spelled with more letters on the right of the keyboard are associated with more positive emotions than words spelled with more letters on the left, according to new research by cognitive scientists Kyle Jasmin of University ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Mar 07, 2012 | 4 / 5 (6) | 7 |

Green tea found to reduce disability in the elderly

(Medical Xpress) -- A lot of research has been done over the past several years looking into the health benefits of green tea. As a result, scientists have found that regular consumption of the beverage leads ...

Health Feb 07, 2012 | 4.2 / 5 (17) | 10 |

Multiple sclerosis research links brain activity to sharper cognitive decline

(Medical Xpress) -- When it comes to communication in the brain, more is usually better. But now scientists have linked increased communication in a network of brain regions to more severe mental impairment in patients with ...

Neuroscience Jan 10, 2012 | not rated yet | 0 |

Blood tests may hold clues to pace of Alzheimer's disease progression

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists, led by Johns Hopkins researchers, say they may have found a way to predict how quickly patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) will lose cognitive function by looking at ratios ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Oct 04, 2011 | not rated yet | 0 |