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Research Finds Photos More Useful Than Words for Memory Recall
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that pictures allow patients with very mild Alzheimer's disease (AD) to better recognize and identify a subject as compared to using ...
Color boosts brain performance and receptivity to advertising, depending on task
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Feb 05, 2009 |
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A new University of British Columbia study reconciles a debate that has long raged among marketers and psychologists: What colour most improves brain performance and receptivity to advertising, red or blue?
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Social memory in Drosophila
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Positive social interactions exist within Drosophila: when in a group, Drosophila flies have better memory than when they are isolated. Thomas Preat's team at the Laboratoire de Neurobiologie (CNRS, France) ...
Hypnosis study reveals brain's 'amnesia centers'
Jan 09, 2008 |
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Brain scans of hypnotized people that are taken as they forget and are triggered to remember have revealed neural circuitry that is key to the memory suppression and recall process. The researchers who conducted the study ...
Forget about it: Inducible and selective erasure of memories in mice
Oct 22, 2008 |
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Targeted memory erasure is no longer limited to the realm of science fiction. A new study describes a method through which a selected set of memories can be rapidly and specifically erased from the mouse brain in a controlled ...
When less attention improves behavior
Jan 21, 2009 |
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A new study conducted at the Centre for Studies and Research in Cognitive Neuroscience of the University of Bologna, and published by Elsevier in the February 2009 issue of Cortex shows that, in confabulating patients, memory ...
Book explores our ability to remember future intentions
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 16, 2007 |
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If you left your kids at school; if you forgot a dentist appointment; if you came home without the bread you set out to buy — you're a victim of your own faulty prospective memory. Our brains store intentions ...
Counting every thought: What consumers see when looking at ads
Apr 21, 2008 |
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Thought-listing exercises are frequently used by researchers to gauge people’s reactions to advertisements. But a new paper in the June 2008 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research from the Wharton School of Business sugges ...
Effects of disease severity on autobiographical memory in semantic dementia revealed in new study
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 02, 2009 |
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In a study conducted by the Laboratory of Neuropsychology of the Université de Caen Basse-Normandie and published by Elsevier in the April 2009 issue of Cortex, researchers studied for the first time autobiographical memory ...
You can believe your eyes: New insights into memory without conscious awareness
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Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists may have discovered a way to glean information about stored memories by tracking patterns of eye movements, even when an individual is unable (or perhaps even unwilling) to report what they remember. ...
Researchers pinpoint brain waves that distinguish false memories from real ones
Oct 23, 2007 |
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For the first time, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are able to pinpoint brain waves that distinguish true from false memories, providing a better understanding of how memory works and creating ...
New study may help understand how Alzheimer's robs sufferers of episodic memory
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May 18, 2009 |
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Memory loss is love's great thief. Those who suffer aren't just the ones who can't remember—family, friends and loved ones agonize over how to react when the disorder begins its often inexorable progress.
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