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Coffee Improves Memory: Just A Load Of Froth?0
- Memory and Games, Mind & Brain
- January 23, 2014
A new study claims caffeine enhances long-term memory. Caffeine is the world’s most used drug with 90% of us consuming it on a daily basis. We are all too familiar with the claims that caffeine plays a role in the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, the boosting of the immune system and the promotion of cardiac arrhythmia.
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Collective Memory: Scientific Aproach To Telepathy?10
- Earth & Environment
- November 18, 2013
Do stories about connected minds have anything to do with science? Why do humans often make independent but similar discoveries at about the same time? What makes us repetitively stumble upon that new word or phenomenon that we just learned about the other day? And how do mice know all about our poison and traps? Is
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Learning a New Language Makes the Brain Grow 0
- Mind & Brain, Popular
- October 9, 2012
Certain parts of the brain develop according to the way people study a foreign language. Researchers in Sweden found that, after three months of intensive language learning, there were increases in the hippocampus and the cerebral cortex of the subjects. The paper, published in NeuroImage, is based on MRI scans to students at the Swedish
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Listen to the Tune While Sleeping and You’ll Be Able to Play It Better 0
- Mind & Brain, Music and Mind, Popular
- June 25, 2012
There is a belief that you can learn things by listening to them while sleeping, though there was no scientific evidence to such a claim until now. Researchers from Northwestern University have found that musicians that listen to known music while sleeping are able to play the tune better. The researchers presented the participants with
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