CNS 2019 Day 1 in Brief

March 24, 2019

The question that might be on everyone’s mind after a fantastic first day of the the 26th annual meeting of CNS in San Francisco is: How did you sleep last night? That’s because Matthew Walker (UC Berkeley) delivered a riveting keynote address yesterday to kick off the meeting, all about […]

Time for Understanding Time in the Brain

March 19, 2019

CNS 2019 “Time is passing too fast!” Many of us use that phrase every day when we feel like our kids are growing up fast or when a deadline sneaks up on us. When Virginie van Wassenhove hears that phrase, it conjures an entirely different point of view. She goes […]

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Putting Together the Puzzle of Adaptive Constructive Memory

February 21, 2019

Q&A with Daniel Schacter The image most often used to describe how memory works is that of a video recorder retaining impressions in real time of each event, and your brain then plays back those impressions when calling up a memory. But that is but a memory myth. The image […]

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Bringing Hyperfocus into Research Focus

February 15, 2019

Guest Post by Tessa Abagis, University of Michigan “I get hooked into Netfix, and I’m not able to stop easily to get work done.” Sound familiar? Maybe you’re trying to catch up on Game of Thrones before the new season comes out or keep up with the seemingly infinite Netflix […]

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Clinically-Driven to Study Memory

January 24, 2019

Q&A with Muireann Irish Clinical populations can provide a wealth of data to cognitive neuroscientists working to understand the brain. By seeing what happens in the brain of someone who has a cognitive disorder, researchers can better identify the fundamental underlying mechanisms. That is certainly true for memory research, where […]

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Going with the Flow: Mapping Information in the Human Brain

January 22, 2019

Q&A with Michael W. Cole Increasingly, cognitive neuroscientists are focusing on computation to better understand how information is stored and moves through the human brain. For Michael Cole, this work has included computer science at Apple and behavioral science at Berkeley, with him ultimately creating a cognitive neuroscience lab at […]

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Working Out Working Memory: A Life’s Pursuit

December 19, 2018

Q&A with Earl Miller Working memory is key to our everyday survival — how we communicate, remember what we need to do, learn new things, and generally operate. It is also an aspect of cognition that is disrupted or dysfunctional in almost every neuropsychiatric disorder. Therefore, understanding how working memory […]

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Going Deep on Sleep with Matthew Walker

November 29, 2018

Did you get enough sleep last night? Probably not, says Matthew Walker, cognitive neuroscientist and neurophysiologist at the University of California, Berkeley. Statistics show, he says, that two-thirds of adults fail to obtain the recommended 8 hours of nightly sleep. If that doesn’t seem like a big deal, Walker has […]

Machine Learning to Help Move Beyond Diagnostic Labels for Struggling Learners

October 29, 2018

Anyone who has ever worked with children who are struggling at learning – whether a parent or teacher – knows that diagnostic labels can only go so far in helping individuals. While receiving a diagnosis is an important landmark moment for children and families, is it enough information to guide […]

Playing an Instrument Changes Our Perception of Music

September 27, 2018

The musical instrument you play, or played as a child, likely has a big impact on how you perceive music every day. In a novel new study looking at beatboxers and guitarists, cognitive neuroscientists found that areas of the brain that control movement were activated in the musicians’ brains but […]

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