As children in Western cultures grow, they learn to place numbers on a mental number line, with smaller numbers to the left and spaced further apart than the larger numbers on the right. Then the number line changes to become more linear, with small and large numbers the same distance apart...
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September 11, 2010
August 10, 2010
Baby, Remember My Claim
If you want to make the findings of your scientific study seem more important, simply give the effect a catchy name to help people remember. A study just published online in Psychological Science found that naming research findings boosted their perceived importance, but only if people assume the name is to aid memory. On the [...]
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July 29, 2010
No safe level: First study to show teenage binge drinkers harm abilities in later life
Researchers in the UK have demonstrated a link between teenage binge drinking and damage to prospective memory.
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July 13, 2010
Larger head size may protect against Alzheimer’s symptoms
New research shows that people with Alzheimer's disease who have large heads have better memory and thinking skills than those with the disease who have smaller heads, even when they have the same amount of brain cell death due to the disease.
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July 2, 2010
Memory And Sleep - Think It Over, Then Sleep On It
When it comes to executing items on tomorrow's to-do list, it's best to think it over, then "sleep on it," say psychologists at Washington University in St. Louis. People who sleep after processing and storing a memory carry out their intentions much better than people who try to execute their plan before getting to sleep...
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June 9, 2010
March 4, 2010
DYRK1A Gene May Be One Of Most Influential Factors In Down’s Syndrome
Persons with Down's syndrome usually have great problems with memory; this being precisely one of the characteristics which differentiates them from other people. Particularly notable is the poor capacity they have for retaining information received orally, but also that concerning visual-spatial memory should be taken into account...
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February 10, 2010
Depression and lack of concentration do not necessarily go together
A recent review has found that depression does not always lead to memory problems or difficulties concentrating.
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February 9, 2010
Mediterranean diet may lower risk of brain damage that causes thinking problems
A Mediterranean diet may help people avoid the small areas of brain damage that can lead to problems with thinking and memory, according to a new study.
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December 7, 2009
A Photo is Worth a Thousand Ways to Change Your Memory
Most of us realize that memory is fallible. We forget things all the time–car keys, passwords, whether we turned off the oven, etc. But how many of us would admit that our memory is susceptible to change from the outside? That’s different from simply forgetting–something everyone does on their own–because someone else changing our memory requires “getting in our hea
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