Psychology & Psychiatry
12 ways to finally achieve your most elusive goals
It's that time of year to muse on what you hope to accomplish over the next 12 months.
Jan 3, 2023
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Neuroscience
Study draws new link between dopamine-based reward learning and machine learning
Past neuroscience and psychology research has repeatedly demonstrated the crucial role of rewards in how humans and other animals acquire behaviors that promote their survival. Dopaminergic neurons, neurons that produce dopamine ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Men and women react differently to a lack of sport audience
Without an audience, men run slower and women run faster. The lack of spectators during the coronavirus pandemic appears to have had a noticeable effect on the performance of athletes at the 2020 Biathlon World Cup, a new ...
Jun 22, 2021
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Health
Nearly half of young drivers are resuming driving just weeks after sustaining a concussion
Researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) found that nearly half of adolescents who sought specialty care for a concussion were back to ...
Dec 15, 2020
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Neuroscience
Restoring a rudimentary form of vision in the blind
Restoration of vision in blind people through a brain implant is on the verge of becoming reality. Recent discoveries at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) show that newly developed high-resolution implants ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Neuroscience
Similarities and dissimilarities between automatic learning in bees and humans
A new study in PNAS shows that bees share a capacity for automatic learning the complex statistical properties often experienced in natural environments. Previously this was thought to be a visual capacity only present in ...
Sep 28, 2020
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Neuroscience
Online training helps preemies
An international team of researchers has now found that computerized training can support preterm children's academic success. In their randomized controlled study "Fit for School", the researchers compared two learning apps. ...
Sep 21, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Task force examines role of mobile health technology in COVID-19 pandemic
An international task force, including two University of Massachusetts Amherst computer scientists, concludes in new research that mobile health (mHealth) technologies are a viable option to monitor COVID-19 patients at home ...
Aug 13, 2020
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Neuroscience
Study: Big brains allow dexterous hands
People are skilled with their hands, but take a long time to learn dexterous abilities. It takes babies generally around five months before they can purposely grip an object. Learning more complicated skills such as eating ...
Jul 24, 2020
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Psychology & Psychiatry
New insights into how the human brain solves complex decision-making problems
A new study on meta reinforcement learning algorithms helps us understand how the human brain learns to adapt to complexity and uncertainty when learning and making decisions. A research team, led by Professor Sang Wan Lee ...
Jan 30, 2020
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