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External focus improves postural stability in patients with Parkinson's disease
Mar 26, 2009 |
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ALEXANDRIA, VA - Patients with Parkinson disease may be able to improve their postural stability by directing their attention to the external effects of their movements rather than to the movements of their own body, according ...
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Study to see if video games can boost thinking skills in elderly
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Jun 30, 2009 |
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Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Georgia Institute of Technology have received a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study whether and how video games can boost ...
Fewer strokes for focused folks
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
May 05, 2008 |
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A video game developed by a McGill University psychologist has already been shown to reduce stress and improve performance among telemarketers by training the mind to ignore negative social responses. New studies now indicate ...
Why England's soccer team keeps losing on penalties
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A new study may explain why the England soccer team keeps losing in penalty shootouts - and could help the team address the problem in time for the World Cup 2010. Research by the University of Exeter shows ...
People who wear rose-colored glasses see more, study shows
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 03, 2009 |
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A University of Toronto study provides the first direct evidence that our mood literally changes the way our visual system filters our perceptual experience suggesting that seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses is ...
Brain studies reveal the mechanisms of the voluntary control of visual attention
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Neuroscientists at Duke University have mapped the timing and sequence of neural activations that unfold in the brain when people focus their attention on specific locations in their visual fields.
Chimps, like humans, focus on faces
Jul 23, 2009 |
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A chimp's attention is captured by faces more effectively than by bananas. A series of experiments described in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology suggests that the apes are wired to res ...
Anxiety's hidden cost
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Jun 23, 2009 |
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The effect of anxiety on academic performance is not always obvious but new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council suggests that there may be hidden costs. The research found that anxious individuals ...
Research Lab Combines Psychology with Technology
Feb 03, 2009 |
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A unique laboratory has been established at The University of Alabama in Huntsville that combines psychology with technology to focus on the interaction between humans and complex systems.
Fear of messing up may cause whites to avoid blacks
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Apr 01, 2008 |
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Democratic consultant Donna Brazile brought home America’s reluctance to talk openly about race in a New York Times article that preceded the Barack Obama speech that now has the whole nation buzzing. In essence, she said ...
Pre-school program shown to improve key cognitive functions, self-control
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Nov 29, 2007 |
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An innovative curriculum for pre-schoolers may improve academic performance, reduce diagnoses of attention deficient hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and close the achievement gap between children from poor families and those ...
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