News tagged with motor memory

Thin drives -- the next generation of portable memory

Tablets are fast becoming the media device of choice nowadays for work and play, particularly with the advent of iPads and the Samsung Galaxy Tab into the mobile device market. With a volume of 19.5 million ...

Electronics / Hardware

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Better learning through handwriting

Associate professor Anne Mangen at the University of Stavanger's Reading Centre asks if something is lost in switching from book to computer screen, and from pen to keyboard.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Discovering the source of long-term motor memory

The motor memory we use everyday-for sport, playing a musical instrument and even typing-is acquired through repeated practice and stored in the brain. New motor skills can be learned through practice, but ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists uncover new mechanism of memory formation

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a mechanism that plays a critical role in the formation of long-term memory. The findings shed substantial new light on aspects of how memory ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Aug 25, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

To remember the good times, reach for the sky

A study published in the April issue of Cognition shows that motor actions can partly determine people's emotional memories. Moving marbles upward caused participants to remember more positive life experiences, and moving ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Protein linked to problems with executive thinking skills

New research shows that a high level of C-reactive protein (CRP), a marker for inflammation in the blood, is associated with brain changes that are linked to problems with executive thinking skills. The study is published ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 29, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

3 Questions: Suzanne Corkin on the world's most famous amnesic

H.M., the well-known amnesic patient whose condition helped scientists understand memory and memory impairment, died a year ago at the age of 82. H.M. (whose full name, Henry Gustav Molaison, was disclosed ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dehydration Affects Mood, Not Just Motor Skills

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dehydration has long been known to compromise physical performance. Now, a new study provides insight into the effects of mild dehydration on young athletes, and possibly into the lives of ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Brain develops motor memory for prosthetics, study finds

"Practice makes perfect" is the maxim drummed into students struggling to learn a new motor skill - be it riding a bike or developing a killer backhand in tennis. Stunning new research now reveals that the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 2

Magnetic brain stimulation improves skill learning

The use of magnetic pulses to stimulate the dorsal premotor cortex (PMd) region of the brain results in an improved ability to learn a skilled motor task. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience show t ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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

created Mar 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0