News tagged with cognitive enhancement

What drugs do to the brain

Drug abuse is probably linked to an in-built tendency to act without thinking, as shown by studies of siblings of chronic stimulant users, a leading neuroscientist will claim this week.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Scientists ID gene key to Alzheimer's-like reversal

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team led by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has now pinpointed the exact gene responsible for a 2007 breakthrough in which mice with symptoms of Alzheimer's disease regained ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created May 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2




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Navy pilot training enhanced by AEMASE 'smart machine'

Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new "smart machine" installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students.

Technology / Other

created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Research: Too much, too little noise turns off consumers, creativity

The sound of silence isn't so golden for consumers, and both marketers and advertisers should take note, says new research from a University of Illinois expert in new product development and marketing.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mini-sensor measures magnetic activity in human brain

A miniature atom-based magnetic sensor developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has passed an important research milestone by successfully measuring human brain activity. Experiments ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

A new take on the games people play in their relationships

Human nature has deep evolutionary roots and is manifested in relationships with family members, friends, romantic and business partners, competitors, and strangers more than in any other aspects of behavior or intellectual ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

UNH research adds to mounting evidence against popular pavement sealcoat

A parking lot at the edge of the University of New Hampshire campus has contributed important research to an emerging concern for the environment and human health.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Teach your robot well (Georgia Tech shows how)

Within a decade, personal robots could become as common in U.S. homes as any other major appliance, and many if not most of these machines will be able to perform innumerable tasks not explicitly imagined by their manufacturers. ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new direction for game controllers: Prototypes tug at thumb tips to enhance video gaming

University of Utah engineers designed a new kind of video game controller that not only vibrates like existing devices, but pulls and stretches the thumb tips in different directions to simulate the tug of ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 05, 2012 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New computers respond to students' emotions, boredom

Emotion-sensing computer software that models and responds to students’ cognitive and emotional states – including frustration and boredom – has been developed by University of Notre Dame Assistant ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How does messiness affect consumer preference for simplicity?

A clean desk might not be all it's cracked up to be. According to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research, messiness can lead consumers toward clearer thinking—especially political conservatives.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Hotter homes produce smarter babies

(PhysOrg.com) -- A hotter home appears to produce babies with better cognitive abilities - but before you turn up the home heater to make your baby brainier, the research was conducted on the Australian lizard ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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