Geometry’s Hidden Roots: Intuition Persists Into Adulthood and Falters in Dyscalculia
A new iScience study shows that intuitive geometric abilities mature into adulthood, predict formal geometric competence, and are selectively and ...
Tag: working memory
Training the Brain to Listen: Working Memory and Metacognition Join Forces in Language Learning
A randomized experiment with Iranian teenage English learners found that metacognitive intervention and working memory training both improve listening comprehension, ...
Decades After the Anfal Campaign, Trauma Persists Across Kurdish Generations
A study of 464 Kurds finds that Anfal genocide survivors and their children still show elevated depression, anxiety, suicidality, and ...
What Your Workday Does to Your Brain: Movement, Sitting and Midlife Cognition
A Finnish study of over 1,000 middle-aged employees using accelerometers and compositional data analysis found that links between daily movement ...
Silent Speech Runs the Brain’s Arousal System on Low Power, Pupil Study Reveals
New pupillometry experiments show that silent inner speech produces lower and sometimes opposite pupil-linked brain arousal compared with speaking aloud, ...
Fruit fly brain study reveals how working memory is written and switched off
Researchers at NYU Langone Health have shown that fruit flies store short-term odor memories in a gated split attractor network ...
Lifelong Learning and Emotional Skills Keep the Ageing Brain Sharp, Twin Studies Find
Two SISSA studies show that lifetime cognitive reserve and emotional intelligence work together to preserve language and working memory in ...
Heavy Thinking Eases Emotional Conflict in Non-Social Anxiety, but Not Social Anxiety
A new dual-task experiment shows that high cognitive load suppresses emotional conflict in people with elevated non-social anxiety symptoms, while ...
From Therapy Dogs to Memory Training: What Really Helps Children With Cancer
A comprehensive meta-analysis of 34 trials finds that psychosocial interventions significantly improve working memory, anxiety and pain in children and ...
Brain Stimulation and Mental Workload Steer How We Explore, Gamble, and Seek Information
A new PLOS One study shows that cognitive load and anodal stimulation of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex have distinct, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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