Understanding Our Brains at Rest to Help Treat Alzheimer’s

July 8, 2013

Breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience: Highlighting influential research from the past 20 years This series will explore influential papers in cognitive neuroscience, as measured by the number of times they are cited each year. The papers featured are a sampling of many important works in the field over the past 20 […]

G. Conti

Feeling Others’ Pain: Transforming Empathy into Compassion

June 24, 2013

Breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience: Highlighting influential research from the past 20 years This series explores influential papers in cognitive neuroscience, as measured by the number of times they are cited each year. The papers featured are just a sampling of many important works in the field over the past 20 […]

Bo Borbye Pedersen from Copenhagen, Denmark

Give Me Your Best Impression: How Our Brains Control Vocal Identity

June 17, 2013

We are all amateur voice actors, whether we know it or not. Even if you cannot make yourself sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger or beatbox like a pro, chances are, you regularly alter and tailor your voice to speak to different audiences, tell a story, or convey a range of emotions. […]

Frans de Waal; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/deed.en

From Conditioning Monkeys to Drug Addiction: Understanding Prediction and Reward

June 5, 2013

Breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience: Highlighting influential research from the past 20 years This series will explore influential papers in cognitive neuroscience, as measured by the number of times they are cited each year. The papers featured are just a sampling of many important works in the field over the past […]

Seeing is Not Believing: People Do Not Overvalue Brain Images

May 28, 2013

Seeing a beautifully lit up image of the human brain is powerful – maybe too powerful, worry many scientists. But if you think that brain images are the most persuasive form of scientific evidence out there, think again, says a new study that examines how the public views neuroimaging. Members […]

This is Your Brain on Anti-drug Ads

May 18, 2013

“This is your brain. This is your brain on drugs… any questions?” Scientists now are asking how public service announcements (PSAs) such as that powerful 1987 anti-drug ad affect the teenage brain. New research suggests that persuasive anti-drug ads activate both the emotional and executive functions of the teenage brain. […]

CNS 2013 Meeting: Attention Research Guides Toward Behavioral Training

April 17, 2013

Changing how people direct their attention – and the associated brain patterns – could be key to some promising behavioral therapies to help everyone from smokers to patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A symposium Tuesday morning at CNS 2013 set out to integrate the current state of research […]

CNS 2013 Meeting: Moving Away from “Fear” to Unify Field of Mind Science

April 16, 2013

Behavioral scientists need to move away from using terms like “fear” when discussing the workings of the brain, to better integrate the study of the mind. That was Joseph LeDoux’s message during Tuesday morning’s keynote session at CNS 2013. The New York University-based scientist argued that, to minimize confusion around […]

CNS 2013 Press Release: Memory, the Adolescent Brain, and Lying: Understanding the Limits of Neuroscientific Evidence in the Law

April 16, 2013

  April 16, 2013 – San Francisco – Brain scans are increasingly able to reveal whether or not you believe you remember some person or event in your life. In a new study presented at a cognitive neuroscience meeting today, researchers used fMRI brain scans to detect whether a person […]

CNS 2013 Meeting: Language — What’s Memory Got to Do with It

April 16, 2013

Language plays a critical role in the development of the brain. As Patricia Kuhl demonstrated during Monday morning’s keynote session at CNS 2013, early childhood exposure to multiple languages not only enhances the ability to learn languages later in life, but also improves mental flexibility and creative thinking. But what […]

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