News tagged with cognitive mechanisms
Predictive powers: a robot that reads your intention? (w/Video)
Jun 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers in robotics, psychology and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or question) actions ...
Be your best friend if you'll be mine: Alliance Hypothesis for Human Friendship
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 03, 2009 |
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University of Pennsylvania psychologists studying the cognitive mechanisms behind human friendship have determined that how you rank your best friends is closely related to how you think your friends rank you. The results ...
The power of suggestion: Researchers look at why suggestive therapy may prompt false memories
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Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychologist Elke Geraerts of the University of St Andrews has carried out a study of the difference between memories recalled by patients through suggestive therapies, compared with more natural recollections.
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Staying sharp: New study uncovers how people maintain cognitive function in old age
Jun 08, 2009 |
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Not everyone declines in cognitive function with age. Elderly people who exercise at least once a week, have at least a high school education and a ninth grade literacy level, are not smokers and are more socially active ...
Researchers reverse the cognitive impairment caused by sleep deprivation
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A research collaboration led by biologists and neuroscientists at the University of Pennsylvania has found a molecular pathway in the brain that is the cause of cognitive impairment due to sleep deprivation. ...
Under a cloud -- darkness linked to 'brain drain' in depressed people
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Jul 28, 2009 |
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A lack of sunlight is associated with reduced cognitive function among depressed people. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health used weather data from NASA satellites to measure sunlig ...
Activity of individual brain cells predicts cognitive flexibility
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Mar 25, 2009 |
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A new study provides intriguing insights into mechanisms of cognitive flexibility at the single cell level. The research, published by Cell Press in the March 26th issue of the journal Neuron, may help to explain how we can ...
Brains rely on old and new mechanisms to diminish fear, researchers find
Sep 10, 2008 |
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Humans have developed complex thought processes that can help to regulate their emotions, but these processes are also linked with evolutionarily older mechanisms that are common across species, according to a study by neuroscientists ...
Researchers Explore Diabetes, Gene and Cognitive Performance Relationship
Oct 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Maine researchers studying cardiovascular risk factors that influence cognitive performance have discovered that diabetics who carry a particular genotype — one or more of the ApoE-e4 alleles ...
Brain mechanism recruited to reduce noise during challenging tasks
Feb 25, 2009 |
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New research reveals a sophisticated brain mechanism that is critical for filtering out irrelevant signals during demanding cognitive tasks. The study, published by Cell Press in the February 26 issue of the journal Neuron, also p ...
High blood pressure associated with risk for mild cognitive impairment
Dec 10, 2007 |
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High blood pressure appears to be associated with an increased risk for mild cognitive impairment, a condition that involves difficulties with thinking and learning, according to a report in the December issue of Archives of ...
Memory lane: Older persons with more schooling spend fewer years with cognitive loss
May 12, 2008 |
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Those with at least a high school education spend more of their older years without cognitive loss – including the effects of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and dementia -- but die sooner after the loss becomes apparent, reveals ...
Vitamin B supplementation did not slow cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer disease
Oct 14, 2008 |
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High-dose vitamin B supplementation for patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer disease did not slow the rate of cognitive decline, according to a study in the October 15 issue of JAMA.
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