Neuroscience
How our brains remember things depends upon how we learn them
Oxford University researchers have discovered that learned knowledge is stored in different brain circuits depending on how we acquire it.
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Medical research
White matter affects how people respond to brain stimulation therapy aimed at depression and stroke
White matter affects how people respond to brain stimulation therapy aimed at depression and stroke
Aug 29, 2019
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Neuroscience
Virtual treasure hunt shows brain maps time sequence of memories
People have little difficulty remembering the chronology of events, determining how much time passed between two events, and which one occurred first. Apparently, memories of events in the brain are linked when they occur ...
Aug 7, 2019
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Imagine: Our attitudes can change solely by the power of imagination
Sometimes in life there are special places that seem to stand out to us—a school playground, perhaps an old church, or that inconspicuous street corner where you were kissed for the first time. Before the kiss you had never ...
May 17, 2019
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Neuroscience
Measurement of thoughts during knowledge acquisition
In a recent learning study, researchers were able to show that new conceptual information is stored along spatial dimensions in the form of a mental map located in the hippocampus. Together with colleagues from the Donders ...
Mar 26, 2019
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Radiology & Imaging
Human images from world's first total-body scanner unveiled
EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first scans.
Nov 19, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
MDMA makes people cooperative, but not gullible
New research from King's College London has found that MDMA, the main ingredient in ecstasy, causes people to cooperate better—but only with trustworthy people. In the first study to look in detail at how MDMA impacts cooperative ...
Nov 19, 2018
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Neuroscience
Functional MRI reveals memory in sleeping toddlers
Our ability to remember past events develops rapidly in the first couple of years of life, but it's not clear exactly how this happens. Researchers at the Center for Mind and Brain at the University of California, Davis have ...
Jun 4, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research reveals brain mechanism involved in language learning
Learning a new language may be more of a science than an art, a University of Sussex study finds.
Mar 15, 2018
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Neuroscience
Knowing one's place in a social hierarchy
When you start a new job, it's normal to spend the first day working out who's who in the pecking order, information that will come in handy for making useful connections in the future. In an fMRI study published December ...
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