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The internet is awash with videos that claim to use 'binaural beats' to improve your focus or relieve stress. But while they can influence your brain, the touted mood-enhancing effects may not be.
Cognitive neuroscience finds that regular consumption of pornography affects the centres of the brain responsible for will power, impulse control and morality.
Do you ever find you suddenly need to turn off the radio so you can concentrate on what you're doing? It's because you only have a finite amount of attention, for particular types of tasks at least.
The 'contexual-binding theory' suggests memories are easier to retrieve when your brain is in a similar context to when the memory was first formed. Food for thought if you're cramming for an exam.
Despite its huge complexity, your brain directs its neural traffic in relatively straightforward ways when approaching cognitively demanding tasks such as puzzles.
Brain functions integrate and compress multiple components of an experience, including sight and smell – which simply can't be handled in the way computers sense, process and store data.
Ultra-clear maps of individual toes were found in the brains of two foot painters – these are not found in typically developed humans.
Have you ever walked into a room and realised you can’t remember what you were looking for? We tend to do this more when we are thinking of a few things at once or doing two things at the same time.
Our brains create new memories, and forget old ones, by forging and breaking connections between nerve cells. Now researchers can do something similar using a light-sensitive electronic chip.
The only consciousness you can ever be certain about is your own. But there are different types of clues that could hint at what's happening within another entity.
Sports fans see it all the time: two people arguing about a split-second difference in who did what. New research suggests human beings have a bias to perceive their own actions as happening sooner.
Research milestones in the study of memory may help us find solutions to memory disorders like Alzheimer's or recovery from brain trauma.
If consciousness is a by-product of our brains' nonconscious processes, where does that leave us?
Blind people don't have superhuman ears but their brains can rewire themselves to give them an edge over those who can see.
Meaning and purpose aren't the same, but one does drive the other.
Study of the "memory centres" of the brain in adults offers hope for detecting Alzheimer's disease earlier -- before the onset of memory loss.
Companies may benefit when customers create content, provide feedback and do busywork once done by paid employees, but what about the customers themselves – all of us?
Problem solving requires so much brain power that there can be no room left for remembering simple rules.
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Hon Professor of Neuropsychology, Cardiff University
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PhD candidate in Instructional Design, UNSW
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Cognitive Neurosciences, UCL
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Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Bangor University
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Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University
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Emeritus Professor of Psychology, UCL
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Emeritus Robert Reford Professor and Professor of Medicine, McGill University
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