News tagged with memory game
Gamers may not be desensitized by violent video games: study
(PhysOrg.com) -- Violent video games such as Grand Theft Auto may not desensitize players to negative situations or events, suggest psychology researchers from Ryerson University.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 16, 2011 |
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You wear me out: Thinking of others causes lapses in our self-control
Exerting self-control is exhausting. In fact, using self-control in one situation impairs our ability to use self-control in subsequent, even unrelated, situations. What about thinking of other people exerting self-control? ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 06, 2009 |
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Tetris flashback reduction effect 'not common to all games'
The computer game Tetris may have a special ability to reduce flashbacks after viewing traumatic images not shared by other types of computer game, Oxford University scientists have discovered in a series ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 10, 2010 |
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Older adults control emotions more easily than young adults
With age comes the ability to better regulate emotions in order to not disrupt performance on a memory-intensive task, according to a study published in the March issue of the journal Psychology and Aging.
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 04, 2009 |
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Racing, shooting and zapping your way to better visual skills
Do your kids want a Wii, a PlayStation or an Xbox 360 this year? This holiday gift season is packed with popular gaming systems and adrenaline-pumping, sharpshooting games. What's a parent to do? Is there any redeeming value ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Neuroscientists identify physiological link between trial and error and learning
Learning through trial and error often requires subjects to establish new physiological links by using information about trial outcome to strengthen correct responses or modify incorrect responses. New findings, which appear ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 25, 2009 |
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Gadgets: Ultra portable video camera trades fun for video/audio quality
The uCorder video camera from iRes Technology is not the greatest you can buy, but it might be the one you can have the most fun with.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 04, 2010 |
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'Brain exercises' may delay memory decline in dementia
People who engage in activities that exercise the brain, such as reading, writing, and playing card games, may delay the rapid memory decline that occurs if they later develop dementia, according to a study published in the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Elpida Completes Development of 1-Gigabit GDDR5
Elpida Memory, Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory, today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed ...
Nov 20, 2009 |
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