Chess grand masters use different parts of their brains than amateur palyers.
Professional chess players have long stumped fans with how they make killer moves so swiftly and intuitively , and a Japanese study published on Friday may have unlocked their secret .
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Even as you look at this picture you are getting forgetful.
It’s common knowledge that drinking alcohol can impair your memory but what about simply suggesting that you’ve drunk alcohol?
Turns out, alcohol placebos can also impair your memory and judgment…
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Taking a test helps you learn.
Test taking is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques.
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Devices that display text in a clear, legible format encourages the brain to be ‘lazy’
Readers using electronic books are less likely to absorb what they have read because the information is presented in such simple form.
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A robotic elephant that can hug using its trunk and has hundreds of potential facial expressions is offering hope to autistic children. Scientists at Vrije University in Brussels have developed the robot, which is now being trialled with children from Romanian orphanages which they believe could be a major breakthrough for children suffering from autism.
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ADHD children cannot stop daydreaming according to a new study.
Children with attention deficit disorder have brains that cannot stop daydreaming, claims a new study. Researchers found that they physically find it harder to switch off a “default setting” of the brain designed to pass the time when not focused on a task.
Is your brain aware of more than the time right now?
Researchers have found evidence for “chronesthesia,” which is the brain’s ability to be aware of the past and future, and to mentally travel in subjective time. They found that activity in different brain regions is related to chronesthetic states when a person thinks about the same content during the past, present, or future…
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A 3D image replica of a 28,000-year-old skull found in France shows it was 20 per cent larger than ours.
It’s not something we’d like to admit, but it seems the human race may actually be becoming increasingly dumb. Man’s brain has been gradually shrinking over the last 20,000 years, according to a new report.
Comforting food improves patients’ behavior and mood because it “sends messages they can still understand.
Margaret Nance was, to put it mildly, a difficult case. Agitated, combative, often reluctant to eat, she would hit staff members and fellow residents at nursing homes, several of which kicked her out. But when Beatitudes nursing home agreed to an urgent plea to accept her, all that changed.
Continue reading… “Alzheimer’s Therapy Allows Patient Anything They Want, Even Chocolate”
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