Back in 2010, I posted about an intriguing study that got a lot of attention as an apparently sound piece of research demonstrating precognitive ability. At the time, everyone agreed that the...
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 12:10
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 16:36
At the same time as a group of French parents and teachers have called for a two-week boycott of homework (despite the fact that homework is officially banned in French primary schools), and just after the... |
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Sunday, April 22, 2012 - 21:53
In a recent news report, I talked about a study of older adults that found that their sense of control over their lives fluctuates significantly over the course of a day, and that this impacts on their cognitive abilities, including reasoning and memory. ‘Sense of control’... |
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Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 15:42
I recently put up a new page where people can download collections of articles from the website. Most of these were previously available in my store (and still are), but I have put together a new collection, on active reading (a mea culpa for my deplorable... |
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012 - 16:16
In a recent news report, I talked about how walking through doorways creates event boundaries, requiring us to update our awareness of current events and making information about the previous location less available. I... |
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Prevalence of dementia
Dementia is estimated1 to afflict over 35.5 million people worldwide -- this includes nearly 10 million people in Europe, nearly 4.4 million in North America, nearly 7...
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This is the last part in my series on understanding scientific text. In this part, as promised, I am going to talk about the difficulties novices have with scientific texts; what...
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An ingredient of the curry spice turmeric called curcumin is a powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory apparently helps learning and memory through its action on BDNF.
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Alzheimer's disease currently affects one in 10 people over age 65 and nearly half of those over age 85.
More than 19 million Americans say they have a family member with the disease, and 37...
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Intelligence in a cultural context
One theory of intelligence sees intelligence in terms of adaptiveness. Thus: "What constitutes intelligence depends upon what the situation...
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Some comments on the commonalities between the Suzuki approach to learning music and the Montessori approach to education.
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The mediotemporal lobe
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Two large-scale international studies have become established to compare countries' performance in the core subjects of literacy, mathematics and science.
TIMSS: Trends in International...
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A number of studies have pointed to the benefits of a diet rich in fruit and vegetables for memory and cognition in older adults. These benefits are thought to accrue from the antioxidants present in...
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Prevalence
Vascular dementia, as its name suggests, is caused by poor blood flow, produced by a single, localized stroke, or series of strokes.
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A three-year study involving 3,034 Singaporean children and adolescents (aged 8-17) has found that those who spent more time playing video games subsequently had more attention problems, even when...
Monday, April 30, 2012 - 10:39
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While smartphones and other digital assistants have been found to help people with mild memory impairment, their use by those with greater impairment has been less successful. However, a training...
Saturday, April 28, 2012 - 21:00
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A number of studies have found evidence that older adults can benefit from cognitive training. However, neural plasticity is thought to decline with age, and because of this, it’s thought...
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 20:17
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Previous research has pointed to a typical decline in our sense of control as we get older. Maintaining a sense of control, however, appears to be a key factor in successful aging. Unsurprisingly, in...
Saturday, April 21, 2012 - 12:13
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Data from the Nurses' Health Study Cognitive Cohort, involving 19,409 older women (70-81), has found that higher levels of long-term exposure to air pollution were associated with faster rates of...
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 20:53
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Women who received a once-standard type of chemotherapy regimen for breast cancer between 1976 and 1995 have been found to score worse on cognitive tests than women who never had cancer. Specifically...
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 14:33
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A study involving 130 HIV-positive people has found that memory impairment was associated with a significantly larger waistline.
Some 40% of participants (average age 46) had impaired cognition. This...
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 12:13
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A study involving 1,575 older adults (aged 58-76) has found that those with DHA levels in the bottom 25% had smaller brain volume (equivalent to about 2 years of aging) and greater amounts of white...
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 09:25
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The first study to look at the effects of the drug ecstasy on infant development has shown that infants exposed to ecstasy before they were born tend to be behind, especially in motor and...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 19:42
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A new study explains how marijuana impairs working memory. The component THC removes AMPA receptors for the neurotransmitter
Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 17:08
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