Attention! Brain scans can tell if you are paying it
Data from brain scans can now answer an age-old question asked by parents and teachers everywhere: Are you paying attention?
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Data from brain scans can now answer an age-old question asked by parents and teachers everywhere: Are you paying attention?
Mar 3, 2022
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While people tend to have an optimism bias at any age, the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General study reports that this is particularly true among children, and declines as they grow up into adolescence. As they grow ...
Feb 21, 2022
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By adapting computer models originally developed to understand the biology of cancer cells, UCL scientists have identified new drug combinations with the potential to treat severe cases of COVID-19 infection at different ...
Feb 16, 2022
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During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, multiple new and more transmissible variants of the virus have emerged. Understanding how specific mutations affect SARS-CoV-2 transmission could help us to better understand the biology of ...
Feb 7, 2022
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Damage to a part of the brain that processes visual information—the inferotemporal (IT) cortex—can be devastating, especially for adults. Those affected may lose the ability to read (a disorder known as alexia), or recognize ...
Feb 3, 2022
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Garden soil houses a variety of bacteria and their natural byproducts—including one that may help halt tumor growth. Lankacidins are molecules that can be isolated from Strepomyces rochei, a common bacterium in soil. In ...
Jan 31, 2022
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Researchers are using computer simulations to better understand the impacts pregnancy can have on kidneys.
Jan 24, 2022
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Tissue engineered vascular grafts (TEVGs) can advance surgical management of infants and children who require congenital heart surgery, by creating functional vascular conduits with growth capacity. In a new report now published ...
Dr. Robert Noble, a Lecturer in Mathematics in the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering (SMCSE) believes that characterizing the way, manner or pattern of evolution in tumors is important for clinical forecasting ...
Jan 14, 2022
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Buying a second-hand car at a good price feels good. But choosing a delicious-looking doughnut in the supermarket leaves us riddled with doubt. After all, we resolved to eat a healthier diet this year—so wouldn't it be ...
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