Memory

“Sorry.” (Brain Freeze) “Oops.” — What Happens During A “Retrieval Failure”

We’ve all been there before. Tennis players can relate when the match is on their racquet and they feel frozen in space like they’ve never swung before. Their feet don’t move, their arms are like blocks of stone and the object they’re holding feels as foreign to them as a cell phone would to a caveman.

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Sperm Carry Memory Across Generations of Mice

On December 7th, I wrote a blog post about a published study in which scientists, Brian Dias and Kerry Ressler, demonstrated mice could transfer an experiential threat memory across three…
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Neuroscientists: Disc Jockeys With Lasers

What could moving a needle across a piece of vinyl and shining a laser over a mouse brain have in common? They are both techniques that allow us to play…
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USA Memory Champ Nelson Dellis Shares Memory Secrets

This morning in Studio C at the Chelsea Piers in Mahattan, Nelson Dellis, the twice-crowned and reigning USA Memory Champion shared some of his secrets to memorization. In an event…
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Emotions: Terminator II vs Capote

I’ve loved movies ever since I was little, when my dad took me to see cartoons on the big screen in Soviet Russia. They were a fantastic distraction from reality,…
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“The Power of Suggestion” – An Infographic from BrainTrack.com

Original Source: BrainTrack.com
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Brain Pacemakers to Treat Alzheimer’s?

On January 22, 2013, we learned from Ohio State Medical News that during a five-hour surgery last October at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Kathy Sanford became the…
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How to Create a Comfortable Study Environment

The right study environment can make or break your concentration. You want a comfortable place to look over your notes to keep your focus in check. The following tips will…
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Three Holiday Products!

Splickety Lit This game will wip your flig (flip your wig)! Sometimes known as a spoonerism, this clever wordplay exercise has been renamed Splickety Lit. Each question has words or…
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Oliver Sacks and John Hockenberry discuss Hallucinations

World Science Festival presents Oliver Sacks, John Hockenerry & HallucinationsWhat exactly is a hallucination? How does it differ from imagination or a lucid dream? What can we learn about the…
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The Brain World Alzheimer’s Challenge

DID YOU KNOW the month of November is Alzheimer’s awareness month? Currently 5 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease. In reaction to this epidemic, according to Brookdale Senior Living,…
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Dr. David Perlmutter’s DHA, EPA, GLA & BDNF!

Dr. David Perlmutter, M.D., FACN, neurologist and author of “How to Raise a Smarter Child by Kindergarten” says that the our brains are 60% fat, but what really matters is what…
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National Brain Game Challenge – September 30th!

To Merl Reagle, one of the nation’s most prolific puzzle masters whose Sunday crosswords appear every week in more than 50 newspapers, language is a playground. Take the word “ambidextrous”…
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Spring 2012 Calendar of Brain-Related Events

April National Autism Awareness Month autism-society.org/about-us/national-autism-awareness-month/ March 31-April 3 Chicago, Illinois 19th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting cnsmeeting.org/ 10-14 Soelden, Austria 14th International Neuroscience Winter Conference winterneuroscience.org 11-14 New Orleans,…
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THE QUEEN OF HEARTS IS MY MOTHER

The room on the 19th floor of the Con Edison Building at 4 Irving Place in New York City is filled with long tables. At the tables are men and…
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