Basketball Mathematics scores big at inspiring kids to learn
Credit: Photographer: Allan Jørgensen, University of Copenhagen New study with 756 1st through 5th graders demonstrates that a six-week mashup ...
Tag: Memory/Cognitive Processes
Signal detection theory can be used to objectively measure cognitive fatigue
Kessler Foundation research team finds that cognitive fatigue covaries with signal detection theory metrics, providing researchers with new investigative toolsCredit: ...
Different general anesthetics affect consciousness and memory in different ways
Among typical anesthetics, only isoflurane results in undisrupted memory formation in miceCredit: Simon Wiegert, CC-BY Memory loss is common after ...
Attention and working memory: Two sides of the same neural coin?
Princeton neuroscientists have demonstrated that attention and working memory are two sides of the same neural coin; what's more, they ...
Scientists from Russia and Germany measured how the brain learn new words
Credit: Urfu / Nadezhda Pavlova. Researchers from University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany) and Ural Federal University (Ekaterinburg, Russia) have developed ...
Signals from muscle protect from dementia
Scientists at St. Jude are studying how signals sent from skeletal muscle affect the brainCredit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital ...
The brain area with which we interpret the world
Credit: eLife Usually, the different areas in the cerebrum take on a very specific function. For example, they process our ...
Living for today: Exposure to disaster may cause impatience in children
Credit: Department of Global Health Promotion,TMDU Study finds that children who experienced housing loss in the 2011 Great East Japan ...
Unconscious biases can drive foodborne illness outbreaks, MU researchers find
Study concludes outbreak prevention policies should account for inadvertent behaviors.Credit: University of Missouri COLUMBIA, Mo. - In the midst of ...
Complement inhibition reverses mental losses in preclinical traumatic brain injury models
Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina provide preclinical evidence that mental losses after traumatic brain injury can be ...
Cognitive fatigue changes functional connectivity in brain’s fatigue network
Kessler Foundation research team confirms regions contributing to the brain's 'fatigue network', and demonstrates that network connectivity changes with cognitive ...
New molecular driver of frontal circuit maturation discovered
Credit: Mount Sinai Health System Mount Sinai Researchers find a new way to prevent attention deficits associated with Fragile X, ...
Neural networks need more than neurons, new project posits
Credit: Vincent Breton-Provencher/MIT Picower Institute By encoding a feature of biological intelligence called reinforcement learning, in which we iteratively learn ...
From perceptrons to deep learning
An analogue method to mastering the digitalCredit: World Scientific Have you ever wondered if it's possible to learn all there ...