In the past, many neuroscientists have investigated the potential therapeutic value of classical music and other types of music or sounds for alleviating some of the symptoms or deficits associated with different neuropsychological ...
In everyday working life, people are often interrupted in their tasks. After the phone has rung, for example, it is difficult to concentrate on the original task again. The selection of working memory content is impaired ...
Aug 29, 2022
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Drinkers' mood shifts and exposure to alcohol-related cues—beer cans, bars, and drinking buddies—contribute to alcohol cravings in opposite ways for men and women, a new study suggests. The findings have implications ...
Aug 29, 2022
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Does rapid eye movement during sleep reveal where you're looking at in the scenery of dreams, or are they simply the result of random jerks of our eye muscles? Since the discovery of REM sleep in the early 1950s, the significance ...
Aug 26, 2022
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Everyone knows that eating a balanced diet and exercising are important to maintaining one's physical health, but what about one's cognitive health—the ability to think, learn, and remember? Staying physically and cognitively ...
Aug 23, 2022
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How does work affect our daily lives and how does it affect our mental and physical health? How do technical solutions change people and how can devices be made more human-centric? A five-person team at the Fraunhofer Institute ...
Aug 1, 2022
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Car accidents, falls, and sports-related collisions are among the many causes of traumatic brain injuries (TBI)—sudden impact that damages the brain. Such injuries can affect cognitive functioning including information ...
Jul 28, 2022
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Multitasking is not just an office skill. It's key to functioning as a human, and it involves something called cognitive flexibility—the ability to smoothly switch between mental processes. UNC scientists conducted a study ...
Jul 25, 2022
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Racial discrimination increases the risk for physical and mental illnesses, and Black women suffer from diseases at significantly higher rates than White women. How traumatic experiences such as discrimination increase vulnerability ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Poor nutrition coupled with living in a chaotic household environment may negatively affect young children's executive functioning, the higher order cognitive skills that govern memory, attention and emotional control, researchers ...
Jul 12, 2022
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