Psychology researchers who have hypothesized that we classify scenery by following some order of cognitive priorities may have been overlooking something simpler. New evidence suggests that the fastest categorizations our ...
Sep 3, 2015
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Video gamers are better at multitasking and maintaining concentration than the average population, upcoming WA research hopes to prove.
Mar 27, 2014
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Over the past few decades, neuroscientists have made much progress in mapping the brain by deciphering the functions of individual neurons that perform very specific tasks, such as recognizing the location or color of an ...
May 20, 2013
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Scientists at the University of Essex have been working with NASA on a project where they controlled a virtual spacecraft by thought alone.
Feb 5, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—The early onset of Alzheimer's disease could be detected using a simple online test, according to scientists from the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) at The University of Queensland (UQ).
Jan 8, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—As the flu season approaches, public health officials will be campaigning to get people vaccinated, and each of us will have to decide whether to take their advice or not. How will we make those decisions?
Sep 12, 2012
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In a new study that has implications for distracted drivers, researchers found that people are better at juggling some types of multitasking than they are at others.
Jul 23, 2012
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It seems really simple: If you want to achieve something, set a goal and then make specific plans to implement it. But according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, consumers get overwhelmed while juggling ...
May 16, 2012
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A team of University of Pittsburgh mathematicians is using computational models to better understand how the structure of neural variability relates to such functions as short-term memory and decision making. In a paper published ...
Apr 2, 2012
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The brain has a remarkable ability to learn new cognitive tasks while maintaining previously acquired knowledge about various functions necessary for everyday life. But exactly how new information is incorporated into brain ...
Mar 5, 2012
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