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Research discovers how associative memories are formed
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): During a recent study, Neuroscientists discovered specific types of neurons within the memory centre of the brain that are responsible for acquiring new associative memories, which is the ability to remember relationships between unrelated items.
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Study finds why adults struggle to learn a new language
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): A new study by neuroscientists at UC San Francisco has shed light on the age-old question of why it's so difficult to learn a second language as an adult.
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Novel approach by neuroscientists reverses amblyopia in animals
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 1 (ANI): By temporarily suspending retinal activity in the non-amblyopic eye of animal models, neuroscientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory restrengthened the visual response in the amblyopic eye, even at ages after the critical period when patc
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Brain region is key locus of learning: Neuroscientists
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 25 (ANI): Small and seemingly specialized, the brain's locus coeruleus (LC) region has been stereotyped for its outsized export of the arousal-stimulating neuromodulator norepinephrine.
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International study links brain thinning to psychosis
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 6 (ANI): Subtle differences in the shape of the brain that are present in adolescence are associated with the development of psychosis, according to an international team led by neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Maastricht University
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Link found between children's time perception, risk for developmental coor
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): Neuroscientists at McMaster University have found a link between children who are at risk for developmental coordination disorder (DCD), a common condition that can cause clumsiness, and difficulties with time perception such as interpreting changes in rhyt
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Computer's learning ability improved by tweaking AI software to function l
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 12 (ANI): Computer-based artificial intelligence can function more like human intelligence when programmed to use a much faster technique for learning new objects, say two neuroscientists who designed such a model that was designed to mirror human visual learning.
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Neuroscientists isolate mini antibodies against COVID-19 from a llama
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 4 (ANI): National Institutes of Health researchers have isolated a set of promising, tiny antibodies, or "nanobodies" against SARS-CoV-2 virus that were produced by a llama named Cormac.
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Isolation provokes brain activity similar to that of hunger cravings: Stud
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Cambridge [US], November 28 (ANI): Neuroscientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered the similarity between brain activities during isolation and the cravings people experience when hungry.
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Neuroscientists find isolation provokes brain activity similar to that see
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Massachusetts [US], November 24 (ANI): In a recent study, neuroscientists have found that the longings for social interaction felt during isolation are neurologically very similar to the food cravings people experience when hungry.
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Study reveals your favorite music can send your brain into pleasure overlo
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 7 (ANI): About half of the people get chills when listening to music. Neuroscientists based in France have now used electroencephalogram (EEG) to link chills to multiple brain regions involved in activating reward and pleasure systems.
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Scientists examine neurological consequences of COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], September 27 (ANI): In a recent study, neuroscientists and clinicians examined the potential link between COVID-19 and increased risk of Parkinson's disease, with an aim to find measures to get ahead of the curve.
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