Color Psychology: How Colors Affect Us and What Each One Means
What is color psychology? How do colors influence emotions? What do the colors mean? What do the colors convey in different cultures? The meaning […]
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Metacognition: Thinking About Thinking Improves Learning
Metacognition. Have you ever analyzed the strategies you use for learning new information? Do you read the information out loud several times? Or do […]
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Korsakoff Syndrome: inventing memories to compensate forgetfulness
Korsakoff syndrome is a memory problem that is usually due to alcohol abuse or overly restrictive diets that lead to vitamin deficiency. Find out […]
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Hippocampus: the orchestra director in the deepest part of our brain
Hippocampus. Have you ever gone blank and forgotten what you were going to say? Our brain is full of important data and information that […]
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Priming: Useful guide to the Different Types and its Measurability
In psychology, priming is the implicit memory effect where a stimulus that is exposed influences a response to a later stimulus. This will be […]
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Sensory Memory: The Motor Behind Your Hidden Abilities
Can you see with your eyes closed? Can you hear someone’s voice, even when you’re alone? Have you ever traveled in time with a […]
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The Effects of Video Games: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Effects of video games. Growing up, video games were an inescapable part of life and were a large part of development and socialization. Pokemon, which […]
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Cognitive Learning: A Guide to Types of Learning
Whether you realize it or not, cognitive learning has played an important role in your life ever since you were a baby. You learn […]
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Photographic Memory Real: A Snapshot of Photographic Memory
Is having a photographic memory real? A photographic memory is usually used to describe when someone has the stunning ability to recall visual information […]
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Semantic Memory: “It’s on the tip of my tongue!”
“It’s on the tip of my tongue!” Semantic memory stores what we now about the world and language. When we want to remember certain […]
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Too Much Coffee? How Caffeine Affects Your Brain
Almost everyone loves to have a nice, hot cup of coffee every once in a while. In fact, studies show that 85% of the […]
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Development of Cognitive Skills; Piaget’s theory.
Crawl before you walk, walk before you run! When it comes to development, this phrase is certainly true. Before children learn to talk and […]
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Types of exercise: Different types of exercise and their benefits
Types of exercise. Cue the groans! This blog post is all about the benefits of different types of exercise. Yes! You read that correctly! […]
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How to Improve Your Short-Term Memory: Study Tips to Remember Everything
If you want to improve your short-term memory, look no further for some ways to help you out. Your short-term memory is what allows […]
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Not Sure If You Should Take The Leap? Cognitive Benefits of Learning Foreign Languages
We may not look back on our foreign language classes at school with much fondness.However, after reading about the following benefits of learning foreign […]
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Emotional memories: How emotions help you remember
Have you ever wondered why are there situations you can remember better and more vividly than others? How you might even experience an intense […]
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Functions of Dopamine: What is Dopamine and How Does It Affect you?
The functions of dopamine are too many to count. Dopamine is an extremely famous neurotransmitter working in your brain. Whenever you want to learn […]
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False Memories: Can You Trust Your Memory?
We often don’t think about the accuracy of our memories. We just assume that they’re exact and precise, because it’s something that we experienced. […]
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How to Remember Everything: Memory Techniques
Are you struggling to remember things in your everyday life? Whether its forgetting people’s names immediately after meeting them, attempting to recall your grocery […]
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Sleeping Well Improves Memory: Advantages of Being Well-Rested
Sleeping well improves memory? Who hasn’t had problems concentrating at work after a poor night’s sleep? In 2013, a study showed that this common […]
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Do You Know the Different Types of Memory? Train Your Cognitive Skills
Where did you put the keys? Why does she look so familiar? What was his name again? Memory is one of the cognitive abilities […]
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How to improve your memory: Tips to stop forgetting things
At some time in our lives, we’ve all had to search through the entire house to find something because we didn’t remember where we […]
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5 Myths about the Brain
5 Myths About the Brain The brain is truly an amazing organ. It is extremely intricate, and without it, we would not be able […]
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Brain stimulation helps recover from stroke
Brain stimulation helps with stroke Stroke is the No. 4 cause of death and a leading cause of disability in the United States, according […]
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Sleep after learning boosts memory
Sleep after learning boosts memory Numerous studies published over the past decade have shown that a good night’s sleep is essential for brain health […]
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New brain cells may erase childhood memories
New brain cells may erase childhood memories What is your earliest memory? It is highly likely that you do not remember your first birthday […]
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How sleep can help you clean your brain.
How sleep can help you clean your brain. A new study from the University of Rochester and published in Science found that brain cells […]
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Is Alzheimer’s Unique For Each Individual?
A new study originating from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) tries to explain why Alzheimer’s disease can progress more or less rapidly for […]
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People’s memory for Facebook posts is stronger than memory for human faces
People’s memory for Facebook posts is strikingly stronger than their memory for human faces or sentences from books, according to a new study. Try […]
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Sleep and memory in the aging brain
Sleep and memory in the aging brain. New findings reveal a connection between sleep and memory, and shed light on why forgetfulness is common […]
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Botox may benefit stroke patients
Botox may benefit stroke patients. Injecting botox injections into the arm muscles of stroke survivors may help in long term recovery, states new research. […]
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Do the brain benefits of exercise last
Do the brain benefits of exercise last? It is well established that exercise bolsters the structure and function of the brain. Multiple animal and […]
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Scientists explore the illusion of memory
Scientists explore the illusion of memory. Every time someone recalls a memory, it’s a chance to change it. A memory might seem like a […]
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Mouse brain cells activated, reactivated in learning and memory
Mouse brain cells activated, reactivated in learning and memory. Neuroscientists have for the first time shown individual mouse brain cells being switched on during […]
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Brain and nervous system damaged by low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides
Brain and nervous system damaged by low-level exposure to organophosphate pesticides. Scientists have found that low-level exposure to organophosphates (OPs) produces lasting decrements in […]
Continue reading »Newborn neurons, even in the adult aging brain, are critical for memory. Newly generated neurons in the adult hippocampus are critical for memory retrieval, according […]
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