A study by the University of Sheffield has cast doubt on the efficacy of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques in improving visual working memory.
Apr 4, 2024
0
15
When we use our working memory, we temporarily retain information in our brain. For instance, you are able to comprehend this sentence because you are briefly storing in working memory each of the words you are reading until ...
Aug 17, 2023
0
54
Are our senses there to provide us with the most complete representation of the world, or do they serve our survival? For a long time, the former was the dominant view in neuroscience. "Was" is the operative word here. In ...
Jun 12, 2023
0
93
No treatment currently exists that can stop the silent progression of multiple sclerosis, and many promising drugs have proved ineffective in clinical trials. To reduce this failure rate and better predict the potential of ...
May 3, 2023
0
30
A new study is investigating whether learning to remember smells can boost memory more broadly and reduce the risk of dementia.
May 2, 2023
0
5
A new accessibility-focused robot under development will allow children of mixed visual abilities to have a balanced conversation where everyone participates equally.
Mar 30, 2023
0
23
(HealthDay)—Schizophrenia and bipolar I patients experience cognitive decline through adulthood, although the nature of this decline varies across disorders and cognitive functions, according to a study published online ...
Jan 28, 2022
0
116
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital are hot on the trail of elderly "super-agers"—whose sharp memories avoid typical age-related declines—in an attempt to study whether there are interventions ...
Jan 24, 2022
0
9
Playing video games that are heavy on action can make you better at some new tasks. New research reveals that these games are helping by teaching players to be quicker learners.
Oct 26, 2021
0
135
People with schizophrenia are likely to have severely impaired reading ability, a new study has shown.
Mar 17, 2021
0
10
