News tagged with selective attention

Regular demands on attention and memory keep students on task in online courses, study reports

(Medical Xpress)—Somewhere between the traditional classroom and old fashion home schooling, online learning has emerged as the dominant educational resource. Skyrocketing tuition, particularly at the college ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Apr 02, 2013 | 5 / 5 (3) | 1 |

Reward linked to image is enough to activate brain's visual cortex

Once rhesus monkeys learn to associate a picture with a reward, the reward by itself becomes enough to alter the activity in the monkeys' visual cortex. This finding was made by neurophysiologists Wim Vanduffel and John Arsenault ...

Neuroscience Mar 21, 2013 | not rated yet | 1

Aerobic exercise boosts brain power

The physical benefits of regular exercise and remaining physically active, especially as we age, are well documented. However, it appears that it is not only the body which benefits from exercise, but the mind too. The evidence ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Dec 13, 2012 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Family's economic situation influences brain function in children

Children of low socioeconomic status work harder to filter out irrelevant environmental information than those from a high-income background because of learned differences in what they pay attention to, according to new research ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Nov 28, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Study offers new clue on how brain processes visual information, provides insight into neural mechanisms of attention

Ever wonder how the human brain, which is constantly bombarded with millions of pieces of visual information, can filter out what's unimportant and focus on what's most useful?

Neuroscience Jul 23, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |