Monday, 10 October 2011 07:30
Working Memory: The Key to Greatness
What makes people great? Popular theorists such as the New Yorker's Malcolm Gladwell and the New York Times' David Brooks argue that intelligence plays a role -- but only up to a point. Beyond that, they say, it's practice, practice, practice.
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Cognitive Psychology
Tuesday, 25 January 2011 14:06
Practise Exam Questions If You Want Better Exam Results
Practising exam questions is a much better way of preparing for examinations than rereading and reviewing notes, according to a new study by Jeffrey Karpicke and Janell Blunt from Purdue University. They also found that most students are not very good at judging which methods work best for them.
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Cognitive Psychology
Wednesday, 06 October 2010 14:26
Improve Memory For Names By Applying Direct Current To Your Scalp (don't try this at home!)
Memory for people's names can be improved through the application of a small electric current to the scalp according to new research.
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Thursday, 16 September 2010 11:54
Physically Fit Kids Have Better Memories
Nine and Ten year old children who are physically fit have bigger hippocampi and better memories than those who are not physically fit, according to researchers from the University of Illinois.
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Cognitive Psychology
Tuesday, 13 July 2010 07:27
Don't Expect The Unexpected (updated)
Heraclitus of Ephesus, the ancient Greek philosopher, told us, "If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail."
Two and a half thousand years later Daniel Simons, a professor of psychology at the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois, has shown that expecting the unexpected does not mean that you will see it.
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Wednesday, 20 January 2010 09:37
The Ability to Recognise Faces Is Inherited Separately From IQ
A new study involving the collaboration of researchers from the US and China has revealed that the ability to recognise faces has a genetic component and is inherited separately from IQ. This means that some people could have a high IQ, but be poor at recognising faces, while some people with low IQs could be very good at recognising faces.
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Cognitive Psychology
Thursday, 03 December 2009 10:38
Endel Tulving Wins 2009 Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier International Prize
Professor Endel Tulving, the Canadian cognitive psychologist, has been awarded the 2009 Pasteur-Weizmann/Servier International Prize for his work on the Neuropsychology of memory.
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Cognitive Psychology
Friday, 20 November 2009 08:21
Sleep Processes Memories
The body of research showing that sleep contributes to memory consolidation continues to grow. New research has demonstrated that playing external sounds during deep sleep can improve memory for spatial tasks associated with those sounds.
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Cognitive Psychology
Saturday, 14 November 2009 13:01
Perception of Geometry is Innate
New reseach suggests that the ability to perceive shapes is innate. Despite minimal exposure to the regular geometric objects found in developed countries, African tribal people perceive shapes as well as westerners.
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Cognitive Psychology
Thursday, 01 October 2009 13:26
Memory in a Bottle
German scientists have created a nasal spray that improves memory for information that has just been learned if it is followed by a good night's sleep. The study by Christian Benedict, Jürgen Scheller, Stefan Rose-John, Jan Born, and Lisa Marshall , published in the October edition of the FASEB Journal, found that interleukin-6, when administered through the nose helps the consolidation of emotional and procedural memories during REM sleep.
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Cognitive Psychology
