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  • Forgetting can make you smarter

    • Posted by Admin geazle
    • June 22, 2017
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    According to a new review paper, forgetting can actually make you smarter. The goal of memory is not to transmit the most accurate information over time; however, it is to guide and optimize intelligent decision making by only holding on to valuable information.

  • Connection found between fitness level, brain activity, and executive function

    • Posted by Milton Bertrand
    • September 12, 2015
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    Brain function associated with higher cardiorespiratory fitness plays a role in increased cognitive performance in older adults, according to a new study. Specifically, the scientists found that dual-task processing in a core executive function brain...  more

  • Walking on ice takes more than brains: 'Mini-brain' in spinal cord aids in balance

    Scientists have discovered how a "mini-brain" in the spinal cord aids in balance. Much of the balancing act that our bodies perform when faced with a task such as walking on an icy surface happens unconsciously, thanks to a cluster of neurons in our...  more

  • Blame it on your brain: Salt and hypertension

    Excessive salt intake "reprograms" the brain, interfering with a natural safety mechanism that normally prevents the body's arterial blood pressure from rising, researchers have discovered.

  • Learning languages is a workout for brains, both young, old

    Learning a new language changes your brain network both structurally and functionally, according to researchers. "Like physical exercise, the more you use specific areas of your brain, the more it grows and gets stronger," said the lead investigator.

  • Cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain

    The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain. The discoveries have solved a problem that has...  more

  • Sleep to Protect Your Brain

    A new study from Uppsala University, Sweden, shows that one night of sleep deprivation increases morning blood concentrations of NSE and S-100B in healthy young men. These molecules are typically found in the brain. Thus, their rise in blood after slee...

  • Stress Breaks Loops That Hold Short-Term Memory Together

    • Posted by Milton Bertrand
    • September 13, 2012
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    Stress has long been pegged as the enemy of attention, disrupting focus and doing substantial damage to working memory -- the short-term juggling of information that allows us to do all the little things that make us productive.
    By watching individual...

  • Researchers Call for Ethical Rules to Cover AI (Artificial Intelligence)

    By Milton Bertrand

    It is evident that Homo sapiens will not go to war with machines. If anything, we will couple with them. So, we are on the verge of fusing byte and gene. The convergence of artificial intelligence and brain-computer inte...

  • Day dreaming suggests that you are smart

    A new study suggests that daydreaming during meetings isn't necessarily a bad thing. It might be a sign that you're really smart and creative. People with efficient brains may have too much brain capacity to stop their minds from wandering.