Caffeine improves cognitive ability to process positive, but not negative or neutral words. Most of us have heard that caffeine can improve simple cognitive tasks, but a new study found that 2 to 3 cups of coffee specifically increases...
read moreAccording to Alex Schelgel, a brain researcher and author of a new paper in the Aug. 2012 issue of Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, the adult brain can learn new things just like younger brains. Schelgel studied the brains of...
read moreA new study says girls write better than boys – and we’re not talking about handwriting. Students in 8th and 12th grade were asked to write to persuade, to explain and to convey and experience. The girls in 8th grade scored...
read morePeople with the gene for Huntington’s Disease learn faster, and the more pronounced the mutation, the faster they learn. It seems that with Huntington’s, there’s more neurotransmitter glutamate released, which is important for learning....
read moreA new study shows you can learn while you sleep. Researchers found that sleeping participants who heard a tone followed by an odor would either sniff (if they had eventually learned to associate that tone with a good odor)...
read moreStudying for the LSATs is hard, but it does a lot more than prepare you for the exam: it actually changes your brain. The results of new research show that intensive preparation for the LSATs boosts the connections in...
read moreThere’s new evidence out of Germany that indicates that some dyslexia is caused by the medial geniculate body (part of the thalamus) not processing speech sounds correctly....
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