Psychology & Psychiatry
Study shows mental agility game slows cognitive decline in older people
There may be a way for older people to prevent natural aging of their minds, and it could be as simple as playing a video game.
May 1, 2013
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Neuroscience
How 'science of consciousness' explains our desire for knowledge
(Medical Xpress)—A University of Sussex neuroscientist has come up with a radical new approach in the pursuit of our understanding of consciousness.
Sep 11, 2012
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Boosting new memories with wakeful resting
Too often our memory starts acting like a particularly porous sieve: all the important fragments that should be caught and preserved somehow just disappear. So armed with pencils and bolstered by caffeine, legions of adults, ...
Jul 23, 2012
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Neuroscience
Bilingualism fine-tunes hearing, enhances attention
A Northwestern University study that will be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) provides the first biological evidence that bilinguals' rich experience with language in essence "fine-tunes" ...
Apr 30, 2012
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Neuroscience
Brain training exercises more effective at improving cognitive function than crossword puzzles, study says
A new study shows that doing brain training exercises is more effective at improving cognitive function than performing knowledge games, like crossword puzzles. This is the preliminary analysis of the results from Iowa Healthy ...
Nov 30, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A brain training exercise that really does work
(Medical Xpress) -- Forget about working crossword puzzles and listening to Mozart. If you want to improve your ability to reason and solve new problems, just take a few minutes every day to do a maddening little exercise ...
May 30, 2011
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