When a person tries to access a memory, their brain quickly sifts through everything stored in it to find the relevant information. But as we…
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Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Credit: Kathelijne Koops, UZH Chimpanzees don’t automatically know what to do when they come across nuts and stones. Researchers at the University…
The ability allows the brain to balance sleep with responding to environmental cues. A good night’s sleep is not as simple as it appears. While…
An Italian-Swiss team demonstrates children reading skills can be improved through a novel child-friendly action video game. Decoding letters into sound is a key point…
We create countless memories as we live our lives but many of these we forget. Why? Counter to the general assumption that memories simply decay…
Researchers find out how exercise improves learning. University of Queensland researchers have discovered an exercise ‘sweet spot’ that reverses the cognitive decline in aging mice,…
Dogs extract words from continuous speech using similar computations and brain regions as humans do, a new study combining EEG and fMRI by researchers from…
A new experimental setup for studying animal behavior and learning. Your commute to work may seem like a mundane thing, but it is a great…
Ever since humans began committing their view of the world to flat slabs of rock and papyrus, we had a sense that our mental maps…
Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn’t be so quick to throw away…
Space App Camp 2021. Credit: ESA ESA is inviting up to 25 committed mobile app developers and specialists in artificial and machine learning related to…
Confocal microscopic image of cortical neurons after two-step labeling. The neurons were fixed, permeabilized, and immunostained with an anti-MAP2 antibody for visualizing the dendrite. Green…
Marmoset monkeys are not only passive observers of third-party interactions, but that they also interpret them. Credit: Judith M. Burkart, UZH Humans continuously observe and…
Individuals who can unconsciously predict complex patterns, an ability called implicit pattern learning, are likely to hold stronger beliefs that there is a god who…
Illustration of the vagus nerve. Credit: Kenneth Probst/UCSF New research by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh and University of California San Francisco (UCSF) revealed…
What would you do if the person standing next to you would suddenly scream and run away? Would you be able to carry on calmly…
But scores on the material nine months later dropped to ‘floor level,’ Baylor University study finds. College students who listened to classical music by Beethoven…
For the study, pupils in two school classes learned English vocabulary — with and without scent sticks during the learning period and also at night.…
Discovery boosts understanding of how human brain learns speech. A father holds up his newborn, their faces only inches apart, and slowly repeats the syllables…