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Apr 11, 2020

Vaccine skeptics actually think differently than other people. Research shows people with vaccine skepticism overestimate the likelihood of all kinds of negative events, especially those that are rare.

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Mar 15, 2020

Fear memory involves the strengthening of neural pathways between two brain areas: the hippocampus, which responds to a particular context and encodes it, and the amygdala, which triggers defensive behavior, including fear responses. Weakening these connections could erase the fear memory.

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Mar 08, 2020

Earliest look at newborns' visual cortex reveals the minds babies start with. Brain scans of newborns reveals that as young as six days old a baby's brain appears hardwired for the specialized tasks of seeing faces and seeing places.

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Mar 06, 2020

Music intervention and mindfulness reduces the effect of mental fatigue. The study demonstrates that just 12 minutes of binaural beats and 4 weeks of mindfulness training are effective recovery strategies to counteract the negative effects of mental fatigue on sustained attention.

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Mar 04, 2020

How our brains create breathing rhythm is unique to every breath. Every breath we take arises from a disorderly group of neurons - each like a soloist belting out its song before uniting as a chorus to harmonize on a brand-new melody. Or, in this case, a fresh breath.

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Feb 09, 2020

Scientists have shown that you are more likely to initiate a voluntary decision as you exhale. These findings propose a new angle on an almost 60-year-old neuroscientific debate about free will and the involvement of the human brain.

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Jan 26, 2020

A small region of the brain represents all our emotions. Scientists shows that the polarity, complexity and intensity of emotional experiences are represented by smooth transitions in right temporo-parietal territories.

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Jan 11, 2020

During play, baby and adult brains are "on the same wavelength", experiencing similar brain activity in the same brain regions, find Princeton researchers. When a baby and adult play together, their brains influence each other in dynamic ways, thereby forming a feedback loop.

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Dec 14, 2019

A tortoise never forgets, and are like “elephants” of the reptile world, suggests a new study. Giant land tortoises have a reputation for being sluggish in both speed and brainpower, but a new study found that they were able to remember how to carry out tasks that they learned nine years ago.

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Nov 28, 2019

Researchers Get ‘Glimpse Into A Human Mind’ As It Makes Choices In Groups, Social Media. In large groups of essentially anonymous members, people make choices based on a model of the “mind of the group” and an evolving simulation of how a choice will affect that theorized mind.

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Nov 20, 2019

UK Study: Lack of economic support hinders cognitive abilities of children of single mothers

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Jun 16, 2019

A machine-learning method discovered a hidden clue in people's language predictive of the later emergence of Psychosis. Prediction method of at-risk person who later develops psychosis is 93 percent accurate

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Jun 03, 2019

As plaque deposits increase in the aging brain, money management falters. Testing revealed that specific financial skills declined with age and at the earliest stages of mild memory impairment. The decline was similar in men and women.

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May 24, 2019

Exposure to air pollution before and after birth may affect fundamental cognitive abilities. The confirms that exposure to air pollution at the beginning of life and throughout childhood is a threat to neurodevelopment and an obstacle that prevents children from reaching their full potential

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Apr 15, 2019

Low-intensity ultrasound can change decision-making process in the brain. New research in primates has shown for the first time that counterfactual thinking is causally related to a frontal part of the brain, called the anterior cingulate cortex

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Apr 05, 2019

Like old photographs, memories fade in quality over time - researchers expected recollections would become less accurate, but found people also report declines in the vibrancy and visual qualities of their memories.

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Apr 04, 2019

Deep stimulation improves cognitive control by augmenting brain rhythms - when Deep Brain Stimulation is applied to a specific brain region, it improves patients' cognitive control over their behavior by increasing the power of a specific low-frequency brain rhythm in their prefrontal cortex.

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Mar 30, 2019

A study has found musical training produces lasting improvements to a cognitive mechanism that helps individuals be more attentive and less likely to be distracted by irrelevant stimuli while performing demanding tasks.

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