Unlike in other organs in the body, in the adult brain, new cells form throughout our lifetimes – creating new opportunities to learn. Turns out that the same region of the brain where new nerve cells are generated is the same region of the brain involved in distinguishing events in our memories. Researchers are now […]
CNS 2013 Poster Preview Our willingness to take financial risks relates to our sensitivity to physical pain, according to new research being presented today at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) in San Francisco. The study is one of several highlighted in Saturday’s opening poster session, which also includes research on when […]
“Studying how the brain makes decisions can help treat brain disorders of decision-making. It may eventually help us to improve the way we present information to people when they have to make decisions, like how to save for retirement or whether taxation is the best way to reduce consumption of addictive substances.” – Michael Platt […]
“…cognitive neuroscience research could help jurors and other participants in the legal system to better understand why it is that memory does not operate like a video recorder, and why it is sometimes prone to error and distortion.” Neuroscience is in the legal spotlight more than ever before, with the courts increasingly considering science-based evidence […]
“Anyone who works with monkeys on a day-in-day-out basis eventually asks him or herself a startling question: Exactly who is training whom here?” Our brains, not our eyes, are largely responsible for our visual reality. Although the eyes take and lightly process the pictures, it is our brains that reconstruct what we have seen from […]
As we age, our memories of autobiographical events often fade but some individuals are much better at remembering than others. A new study explores how our genetics result in some of these individual differences in memory retention – and finds that certain genes play an increasingly larger role in how much we forget as we […]
More and more research suggests that exercise is good for the aging brain. Researchers are also now working to understand how exercise affects the brains and behaviors of adolescents. A new study shows that while exercise does not improve teenagers’ performance on certain memory tasks, it does affect how their brains adapt to perform the […]
Early language exposure plays a critical role in shaping the young brain. Even babies can discriminate the sounds of various languages, using computational statistics to make sense of what they hear. Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the Institute for Brain & Learning Sciences at the University of Washington, has been pioneering these studies over the past […]
Celebrating 20 Years of Mind and Brain Discoveries Join us in San Francisco to explore the nature of how we think! Updated April 11, 2013 Media Advisory (April 2013) Check the CNS News Center during the meeting for blog posts and press releases. And follow the meeting on Twitter: @CogNeuroNews #CNS2013 For journalists attending the meeting, please […]
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