News tagged with visual memory
Phantom images stored in flexible network throughout brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brain research over the past 30 years has shown that if a part of the brain controlling movement or sensation or language is lost because of a stroke or injury, other parts of the brain can ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 03, 2010 |
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JPEG for the mind: How the brain compresses visual information
Most of us are familiar with the idea of image compression in computers. File extensions like ".jpg" or ".png" signify that millions of pixel values have been compressed into a more efficient format, reducing ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Why Sleep is Needed to Form Memories
If you ever argued with your mother when she told you to get some sleep after studying for an exam instead of pulling an all-nighter, you owe her an apology, because it turns out she's right. And now, scientists ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 11, 2009 |
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Study suggests Buddhist deity meditation temporarily augments visuospatial abilities
Meditation has been practiced for centuries, as a way to calm the soul and bring about inner peace. According to a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, there is now ev ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 27, 2009 |
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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
Jan 19, 2011 |
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People who 'see' numbers have better memories for dates
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new research project has shown that people who perceive numbers visually, and who see sequences of numbers as visual patterns, have better memories for dates and events in the past than ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Oprah, Luke Skywalker and Maradona -- new study investigates how our brains respond to them
Pictures paint concepts of a thousand words- now, for the first time, scientists studying the brain have worked out how words paint concepts in our minds.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Decoding short-term memory with fMRI
People voluntarily pick what information they store in short-term memory. Now, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers can see just what information people are holding in memory based ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 21, 2009 |
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Brain fitness program study reveals visual memory improvement in older adults
A commercial brain fitness program has been shown to improve memory in older adults, at least in the period soon after training. The findings are the first to show that practicing simple visual tasks can improve the accuracy ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 14, 2010 |
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Workhorse immune molecules lead secret lives in the brain
Molecules assumed to be in the exclusive employ of the immune system have been caught moonlighting in the brain - with a job description apparently quite distinct from their role in immunity.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Human working memory is based on dynamic interaction networks in the brain
A research project of the Neuroscience Center of the University of Helsinki sheds light on the neuronal mechanisms sustaining memory traces of visual stimuli in the human brain. The results show that the maintenance of working ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 13, 2010 |
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Dance Memory: Studying how the mind remembers physical movement
Human memory - taking in information, storing it and retrieving it accurately - is key to a variety of crucial decisions made in medicine or law and physical movements like dance.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Study indicates how we maintain visual details in short-term memory
Working memory (also known as short term memory) is our ability to keep a small amount of information active in our mind. This is useful for information we need to know on-the-fly, such as a phone number or the few items ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Some Short-term Memories Die Suddenly, No Fading
(PhysOrg.com) -- The human brain stores some kinds of memories for a lifetime. But when our eyes are open and looking at things, our gray matter also creates temporary memories that help us process complex ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 28, 2009 |
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First ever large-scale study of ketamine users published
The first ever large-scale, longitudinal study of ketamine users has been published online today in the journal Addiction. With Ketamine (K, Special K) use increasing faster than any other drug in the UK (British Crime ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 16, 2009 |
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