News tagged with human cognition

The relationship between child's play and scientific exploration

Laura Schulz, an associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, has always been interested in learning and education. At the age of 6, she tried teaching her 3-year-old sister to read, an effort ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Feb 14, 2013 | not rated yet | 0 |

Long memories in brain activity explain streaks in individual behaviour

(Medical Xpress)—Even with a constant task, human performance fluctuates in time-scales from seconds to minutes in a fractal manner. In a recent study a Finnish research group found that the individual variability in the ...

Neuroscience Feb 12, 2013 | 3 / 5 (3) | 1 |

Researchers identify potential target for age-related cognitive decline

Cognitive decline in old age is linked to decreasing production of new neurons. Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center have discovered in mice that significantly more neurons are generated in the ...

Medical research Feb 07, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Experimental molecular therapy crosses blood-brain barrier to treat neurological disease

Researchers have overcome a major challenge to treating brain diseases by engineering an experimental molecular therapy that crosses the blood-brain barrier to reverse neurological lysosomal storage disease in mice.

Medical research Feb 04, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Less tau reduces seizures and sudden death in severe epilepsy

Deleting or reducing expression of a gene that carries the code for tau, a protein associated with Alzheimer's disease, can prevent seizures in a severe type of epilepsy linked to sudden death, said researchers at Baylor ...

Neuroscience Jan 22, 2013 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Scanning the brain: Scientists examine the impact of fMRI over the past 20 years

Understanding the human brain is one of the greatest scientific quests of all time, but the available methods have been very limited until recently. The development of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)—a tool ...

Neuroscience Jan 16, 2013 | 4.5 / 5 (4) | 1 |

New research reveals exactly how the human brain adapts to injury

For the first time, scientists at Carnegie Mellon University's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging (CCBI) have used a new combination of neural imaging methods to discover exactly how the human brain adapts ...

Neuroscience Jan 16, 2013 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Blink if your brain needs a rest

Why do we spend roughly 10 percent of our waking hours with our eyes closed - blinking far more often than is actually necessary to keep our eyeballs lubricated? Scientists have pried open the answer to this ...

Neuroscience Dec 28, 2012 | 4.7 / 5 (23) | 13

Researchers debunk the IQ myth

After conducting the largest online intelligence study on record, a Western University-led research team has concluded that the notion of measuring one's intelligence quotient or IQ by a singular, standardized test is highly ...

Neuroscience Dec 19, 2012 | 4.2 / 5 (28) | 24 |

Genome-scale study identifies hundreds of potential drug targets for Huntington's disease

Scientists searching for ways to develop treatments for Huntington's disease (HD) just got a roadmap that could dramatically speed their discovery process. Researchers at the Buck Institute have used RNA interference (RNAi) ...

Genetics Nov 29, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Uncommon features of Einstein's brain might explain his remarkable cognitive abilities

Portions of Albert Einstein's brain have been found to be unlike those of most people and could be related to his extraordinary cognitive abilities, according to a new study led by Florida State University ...

Neuroscience Nov 15, 2012 | 3.9 / 5 (16) | 13 |

Chronic exposure to light at night causes depression, learning issues, research shows

For most of history, humans rose with the sun and slept when it set. Enter Thomas Edison, and with a flick of a switch, night became day, enabling us to work, play and post cat and kid photos on Facebook into the wee hours.

Medical research Nov 14, 2012 | 3.8 / 5 (5) | 1 |

Exome sequencing: Potential diagnostic assay for unexplained intellectual disability

Research findings confirming that de novo mutations represent a major cause of previously unexplained intellectual disability were presented on Nov. 8 at the American Society of Human Genetics 2012 meeting in San Francisco.

Genetics Nov 08, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

Applying information theory to linguistics suggests 'functional design' in cross-language variations

The majority of languages—roughly 85 percent of them—can be sorted into two categories: those, like English, in which the basic sentence form is subject-verb-object ("the girl kicks the ball"), and those, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 10, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1 |

A study in adaptability: Why do we change our beliefs?

(Medical Xpress)—The human brain likes to make predictions about how the world works. Imagine, for example, that you move to a new town. At first, you don't know where to go for dinner. But after weeks of trying different ...

Neuroscience Oct 09, 2012 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0 |

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