Active or voluntary learning is a major topic in education, psychology, and neuroscience. Over the years, numerous studies have shown that when learning occurs through voluntary action, there is a modulation of attention, ...
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Human decision-making has been the focus of a wide range of research studies. Collectively, these research efforts could help to understand better how people make different types of everyday choices while also shedding light ...
Virtual reality is helping neuroscientists at the University of California, Davis, get new insight into how different brain areas assemble memories in context.
Jan 25, 2018
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Are you taking your time when feeding your pet? Fluffy and Fido are on to you—and they can tell when you are dawdling.
Oct 23, 2018
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Persistent paralysis and coordination problems are among the most common consequences of a stroke. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, the University Medical Center Halle, ...
Mar 25, 2022
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In people with Parkinson's Disease (PD), the inability to make quick movements limits basic functioning in daily life. Movement can be improved by various cueing techniques, such as providing visual or auditory stimuli when ...
Jul 11, 2011
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A new position paper by researchers at the European Centre for the Environment and Human Health (ECEHH - part of the Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry) and the University of Birmingham has compared the benefits ...
May 30, 2011
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People at risk of Alzheimer's disease have impaired spatial navigation prior to problems with other cognitive functions, including memory, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.
Feb 29, 2024
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Researchers have developed a new technique which allows them to measure brain activity in large populations of nerve cells at the resolution of individual cells. The technique, reported today in the journal Nature, has been ...
May 9, 2012
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A study conducted by a Fight for Sight-funded researcher has discovered that the way we see an image changes depending on where we are. The results were published in Nature on 11 September 2018.
Sep 20, 2018
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