A research experiment was conducted by Ansible Health, a Silicon Valley start-up focused on treating chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which had been testing various AI and machine learning tools to improve its care. As part of the validation process... View Article
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Have you ever wondered how your brain manages to hold information in mind for a short period of time? For instance, when you read the Wi-Fi password off of a cafe’s menu board and have to hold onto it in... View Article
Studies have shown that students from a lower socioeconomic status (SES) background are more likely to have difficulty with educational attainment than those from a higher SES background. In a recent study focusing on determining the specific shortcomings caused by... View Article
The human brain has a remarkable ability to keep track of a sequence of events, allowing us to properly recall the correct order in which things happened. Researchers have long suspected that neurons in the hippocampus, known as “time cells,”... View Article
In the 1970s, researchers John O’Keefe and Jonathan Dostrovsky discovered that certain cells in the hippocampus of rats were activated when the rats were in specific locations in their environment. These cells were dubbed “place cells” and are now known... View Article
The scientific community has been continuously trying to improve memory in adults, anticipating that by 2030, 955,900 Canadians will be projected to have dementia. Researchers have recently determined that just 20 minutes of electric current stimulation to specific parts of... View Article
Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash. Cognitive stimulation comes in a variety of types: intellectual/mental, physical, or social. Older adults are encouraged to find leisure activities they enjoy doing, and to continue pursuing them for the purpose of joyful meaning-making,... View Article
A remarkable new study by Evelina Fedorenko’s research group, published in Nature Neuroscience, showed that brain regions associated with language processing in native English speakers were also activated in speakers of 45 other different languages, while they were engaging in... View Article
More and more people are using their phones for a multitude of tasks such as making online and in-person purchases, creating events, scheduling reminders, tracking tasks, and virtual meetings. All these functions are in addition to those for which people... View Article
Results from the latest Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) reading assessment have indicated that a quarter of Ontario’s grade 3 students are failing to meet reading standards for their age group. Erin Panda, an assistant professor in the Department... View Article
Medicine professor Maxim Bazhenov of the University of California San Diego recently published a study with colleagues in the Journal of Neuroscience that provides insight into the sleep mechanisms that may give rise to relational memory. Photo by Fernando @cferdophotography... View Article
We are living in an era where biomedical research has advanced exponentially – to the extent of being able to roll out and distribute a vaccine to millions within just months of the declaration of a pandemic. As scientists gather... View Article
The internet is a great place for sharing. It’s where students can distribute class notes, study guides, practice quizzes, and much more. But what if students go too far, posting actual exams online that professors have created? Professors automatically own... View Article
Emily Moorhead is a kindergarten teacher whose son in grade 1 was exhibiting early signs of dyslexia, a type of learning disability. Even as an elementary school educator, she still felt that she didn’t have the skills to help her... View Article
Overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are also facing a reading crisis. Children are not learning to read properly and/or are falling behind in regard to the curriculum standards expected of them. Teachers are struggling to do enough to take... View Article
High quality sleep is a must if you want to remember peoples’ names and faces
January 12, 2022 11:00 amResearchers from Northwestern University have discovered the key to improving recall of names and faces – and it’s simpler than you would think. The answer is deep restful sleep. Photo by Shane on Unsplash. Nathan Whitmore, a PhD candidate in... View Article
Memories from traumatic life experiences may show up in the brain differently
January 10, 2022 11:00 pmIn psychology and neuroscience, many scholars and students alike are familiar with the saying “neurons that fire together, wire together”. This catchphrase was popularized after the discovery of Hebb’s rule, in relation to long term potentiation and neural synaptic plasticity. However,... View Article
Would it make a difference if you reward yourself during initial learning (encoding), or during retrieval? Cognitive psychology textbooks present long-term memory processing as a series of steps. First, when learning a new piece of information it enters the encoding... View Article
A research study authored by psychology professor Ellen Bialystok and colleagues from York University sought to determine whether language learning was effective at boosting cognitive health among older adults. Participants between 65-75 years old, all of whom were monolingual English... View Article
A news article summarizes results from three neuroscientific research papers that provide evidence-based strategies to enhance memory consolidation. Photo by Katelyn MacMillan on Unsplash. The first paper suggests that if you would like to enhance your memory for prospective events... View Article