Having trouble remembering where you left your keys? You can improve with a little practice, says a new study. It’s an idea that had never occurred to me before, but one that seems weirdly obvious once you think about it: people who train their brains to recall the locations of objects for a few minutes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘aging’
Forget Me Not
March 2nd, 2012 
The Connectome 
Posted in Brain News, Featured 
Tags: aging, fMRI, imaging, learning, memory, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, senses, vision 
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Musical Learning
January 30th, 2012 The Connectome A new study throws some light on how musical aptitude can offset one very specific aspect of the aging process. In research comparing older patients with musical training to those without, older people who’d spent time regularly practicing or teaching music consistently displayed much faster neural reaction times to certain kinds of sounds. The idea [...]
Posted in Brain News Tags: aging, autism, learning, music, neurophysiology, schizophrenia 1 Comment »
