Neuroscience
Neuroscience study finds 'hidden' thoughts in visual part of brain
How much control do you have over your thoughts? What if you were specifically told not to think of something—like a pink elephant?
Sep 21, 2020
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Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience is a peer-reviewed academic journal for scientific research on cognitive neuroscience and the interaction between brain and behavior. It aims for a cross-discipline approach, covering research in neuroscience, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, neurobiology, linguistics, computer science, and philosophy. The journal is published by the MIT Press, in cooperation with the High Wire Press associated with Stanford University, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute. The current editor in chief is Mark D Esposito, a professor in neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California.
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Country
- United States
- History
- 1989-present
- Website
- http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/jocn
- Impact factor
- 5.357 (2010)
Psychology & Psychiatry
The role of the hippocampus in how humans mentally travel in time and space
Human and animal brains can represent events in time and space in fascinating ways, for instance, by accessing a chronology of events that happened in the past via stimuli perceived by the senses. In the human brain, spatial ...
Neuroscience
The beat goes in the brain: Visual system can be entrained to future events
(Medical Xpress)—Like a melody that keeps playing in your head even after the music stops, researchers at the University of Illinois's Beckman Institute have shown that the beat goes on when it comes to the human visual ...
Aug 28, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
In immersion foreign language learning, adults attain, retain native speaker brain pattern
A first-of-its kind series of brain studies shows how an adult learning a foreign language can come to use the same brain mechanisms as a native speaker. The research also demonstrates that the kind of exposure you have to ...
Mar 28, 2012
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Neuroscience
Scientists say active early learning shapes the adult brain
An enhanced learning environment during the first five years of life shapes the brain in ways that are apparent four decades later, say Virginia Tech and University of Pennsylvania scientists writing in the June edition of ...
Jun 1, 2021
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Neuroscience
Similar brain glitch found in slips of signing, speaking
When we speak, we give little thought to how the words form in our brain before we say them. It's similar for deaf people using sign language.
May 4, 2020
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Neuroscience
Gray matter in brain's control center linked to ability to process reward
The more gray matter you have in the decision-making, thought-processing part of your brain, the better your ability to evaluate rewards and consequences. That may seem like an obvious conclusion, but a new study conducted ...
Nov 29, 2011
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Medical research
A small electrical zap to the brain could help you retrieve a forgotten memory
A study by UCLA psychologists provides strong evidence that a certain region of the brain plays a critical role in memory recall. The research, published in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, also shows for the first ...
May 31, 2019
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Neuroscience
The brain concentrates on the objective
Which is more important when we plan an action: the overarching goal or the approach along the way? Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have discovered that we initially ...
Jan 5, 2016
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Neuroscience
Science reveals the power of a handshake
(Medical Xpress)—New neuroscience research is confirming an old adage about the power of a handshake: strangers do form a better impression of those who proffer their hand in greeting. The study was led by Beckman Institute ...
Oct 19, 2012
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