... invertebrates because they have relatively large brains and they can be trained for various learning and memory tasks, says Dr. Hochner.
Their behavior repertoire and learning and memory abilities ...
... than the old rats. In the old group, the researchers found that the top performers in the spatial memory task were also the ones that showed the best sleep replay. Irrespective of the animal's age, ...
... be the critical difference in maintaining memory skills.
Some of the super aged in the study performed memory tasks at the level of people who were about 50 years old. For example, after being told ...
... cortex to the hippocampus, while study participants performed a memory task. Participants included 11 patients with major depression, 13 with generalized anxiety disorder, nine with ...
... memory tasks when compared with typically developing peers, a study by UC Davis M.I.N.D ... child with ADHD can respond during a working memory task.
"We have known for some time that children with ADHD ...
... attentional and working memory resources between the different information presented in a working memory task," said Crego. "These results collectively suggest that impaired brain function may occur ...
... tasks. These findings suggest that research into early detection of cognitive disorders using only episodic memory tasks, such as word lists or paragraph recall, may not be sensitive to either all of ...
... IQ can be improved by training a certain type of memory.
Most IQ tests attempt to measure two ... findings clearly show that training on certain memory tasks transfer to fluid intelligence," says Jaeggi ...
... under a variety of Ritalin doses, including one that improved the animals' performance in a working memory task of the type that ADHD patients have trouble completing. Using a sophisticated new system ...
... is that brain maturation not only leads to more stable and accurate behaviour in the performance of a memory task, but correlates with increased brain signal variability," said lead author, Dr. Randy ...
LOGAN , Utah, July 21 (UPI) -- Humans aren't the only ones who can see in the real and abstract -- "lower order" animals are quite skilled at memory tasks too, U.S. researchers say.
... ' brain activity was measured using fMRI, while they performed additional short-term memory tasks.
The results show that participants with the greatest activation in the brain region known as the ...
... efficiency' in the brain, as indicated by altered functional recruitment of brain regions during a memory task, may one day become a standard metric of rehabilitation outcome," said Dr. Levine.
The ...
... the schizophrenia-associated variant of MTHFR was found in both patients and controls, when the working memory task become more difficult, weaker cortical function associated with that variant was ...
... of younger subjects -- it was the brain connections that differed.
"If using the frontal regions to perform a memory task was always beneficial, then the young people would use that strategy, too," ...
