memory
20/06/2015 - 13:54
The competition’s task is superficially simple, says Rosalind Potts at UCL. “We wanted to know if you had an hour to study a list of 80... →
15/06/2015 - 13:12
"The return trip effect is not a matter of measuring time itself. Rather, it depends on time judgment based on memory," said Ryosuke Ozawa... →
15/05/2015 - 13:29
Split minds
From a medical perspective, Jacobs’ memory loss is considered to be a case of dissociative amnesia. This means there is no... →
22/04/2015 - 14:09
How is it that these peoples’ noodles put the average brain's memory to shame? And what do the abilities of pi reciters and savants say... →
30/03/2015 - 18:23
What you can do, though, is examine whether individual women’s recollections of their pain change with time. A Swedish study took more than... →
04/02/2015 - 14:16
Forgotten food
The same is true of the food they eat. One of the key studies involved a former musician and a former banker, both of whom... →
25/01/2015 - 13:48
In a study published in 2008, the University of California’s Sara Mednick – author of Take a Nap! Change Your Life – and her colleagues... →
28/12/2014 - 16:20
Her glowing perspective may not represent all second- or third-generation survivors’ experiences, but she symbolizes the crème de la crème... →
10/11/2014 - 13:02
Turning to the demand of many Israelis for Palestinians to recognize Israel as the Jewish state, Peres said: “Is the Jewish character of... →
08/09/2014 - 12:31
Frozen in fear
Edward Meloni and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston trained mice to be afraid of a sound by placing them in... →
30/09/2012 - 20:03
For 30 years, once a month, H.M. would meet with one of the scientists who studied him. And every time she entered the room, she was... →
28/07/2012 - 13:33
Our first Nakba occurred after Zedekiah, the last king of Judea, rebelled against Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar (2 Chronicles 36:13 ). The... →