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Attention grabbers snatch lion's share of visual memory
Aug 07, 2008 |
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Our visual memory is not as good as we may think, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust – but it can be used more flexibly than scientists previously thought. In a study published today in the ...
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Study indicates how we maintain visual details in short-term memory
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Working memory (also known as short term memory) is our ability to keep a small amount of information active in our mind. This is useful for information we need to know on-the-fly, such as a phone number or the few items ...
Echoes discovered in early visual brain areas play role in working memory
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Vanderbilt University researchers have discovered that early visual areas, long believed to play no role in higher cognitive functions such as memory, retain information previously hidden from brain studies. ...
Study predicts 40 percent increase in blindness in Nigeria by 2020
Sep 08, 2009 |
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By 2020, 1.4 million Nigerians over age 40 will lose their sight, and the vast majority of the causes are either preventable or treatable, according to the Nigeria National Blindness and Visual Impairment Study Group.
iPhone porn goes 3D
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 20, 2009 |
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IPhone lovers can use their hot devices to view steamy adult videos in 3D.
'Curve ball' wins international illusion contest
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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Science has proven what baseball players have known for more than a hundred years, the curve ball is more powerful than the brain.
Learning about brains from computers, and vice versa
Feb 15, 2008 |
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For many years, Tomaso Poggio’s lab at MIT ran two parallel lines of research. Some projects were aimed at understanding how the brain works, using complex computational models. Others were aimed at improving the abilities ...
Increased success a 'virtual' certainty for rugby players (w/ Video)
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Rugby players worldwide could benefit from a new virtual reality training programme created at Queen's University Belfast. Team members from Ulster Rugby have been working with researchers in the School of Psychology at Queen's ...
Insomnia suffers need increased brain activation to maintain normal daily function
Jun 09, 2009 |
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According to new research, patients suffering from chronic primary insomnia (PIs) have higher levels of brain activation compared to normal sleepers during a working memory test.
Working memory has limited 'slots'
Apr 03, 2008 |
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A new study by researchers at UC Davis shows how our very short-term "working memory," which allows the brain to stitch together sensory information, operates. The system retains a limited number of high-resolution ...
'Singing brains' offers epilepsy and schizophrenia clues
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 19, 2009 |
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Studying the way a person's brain 'sings' could improve our understanding of conditions such as epilepsy and schizophrenia and help develop better treatments, scientists at Cardiff University have discovered.
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