Sentences with phrase «about learning and memory»

That ebook apps are as good as they'll ever be and will never integrate what research is discovering about learning and memory.

By 1960, computer researchers were trying to model Hebb's ideas about learning and memory.

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Just like we're about to learn what happens when you price low - end Linux computers at less than a movie ticket, and what happens when you give millions of developers access to a few terabytes of memory.

Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

When she learns some unsavory information about her family and her hometown, it stirs up old memories in what was then a region stuck in the middle of the tense civil - rights movement.

We follow Sophia and go down her memory lane to learn about her childhood and how she started her multi million business from scratch.

The department said the information was intended to help people who are concerned about health risks including brain tumors, lowered sperm counts, and effects on learning, memory, and sleep.

We spoke with Neurotrack CEO Elli Kaplan, whose company recently launched an online assessment that helps people understand the state of their memory health, to learn about some of the ways you can potentially decrease your risk for Alzheimer's and cognitive decline more broadly.

Cool thing about camping is if you pack light but smart, you won't break the bank, learn some survival skills, and you will make some amazing memories.

You may think college is about making lifelong friendships, learning valuable life lessons, and creating fun memories.

Much of what Metz says about memory and narrative resonates with what process theology has learned from H. Richard Niebuhr's classic work on The Meaning of Revelation.15 There is, however, a certain difference.

Due to the work of McKee at Boston University and Bennet Omalu (subject of the recently released movie Concussion), we are learning about more and more athletes diagnosed with CTE — Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, a condition marked by «memory loss, confusion, impaired judgment, impulse control problems, aggression, depression and, eventually, progressive dementia.»

We have already learned some important facts about him: He is from the Global South; he takes a bus to work; he is the first Jesuit elected; and he has taken the name Francis, invoking the memory of those great saints, Francis of Assisi and Francis Xavier, both Church reformers in their own way.

I have many happy memories in church, made many friends there and learned a lot about our Father.

One of my favorite things about this time of year in the blogging world is learning about how other people celebrate the holidays including their memories and food traditions and this bountiful bowl looks like the essence of comfort and deliciousness.

There also is rising concern about maintaining intellectual capacity, memory and learning ability with age, however, and the initial interest in dietary supplements for this purpose, particularly in the US, has now started to move into the market.

One of my favorite memories from culinary school was the week we learned about sourdough bread and each made our own starter.

I didn't record the game and I'm only bringing this up (a) to hopefully placate my suspicion that my memory gets worse by the hour, and (b) because it seemed like Brown et al. talked about learning at halftime that Nerlens wouldn't be a go.

Please click here to learn more about storing and sharing your most special memories.

Write a letter to your child where you share about a significant memory from your life and an important lesson you learned from it.

Pet a prehistoric fish, record your own Great Lakes memories and learn all about the species inhabiting our local waters.

On Wednesday February 6 and 13 at 9 pm ET, pop on to Twitter to join me, the lovely Candace Derickx from Life in Pleasantville, and Thomas Cook to chat about family vacations, learn tips and tricks for managing the journey, and share our favourite family travel memories.

This will help them improve their memory both by finding the cards and learning about people that they are getting to know.

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It is easier to get a sense of implicit memory if we think about riding a bicycle: When we get on a bicycle, we don't consciously remember learning to contract this muscle, or to lean in that direction; rather, what we learned during childhood is implicitly written into our nervous system and muscles, and that memory comes alive as a set of lived reactions.

But sometime later, I read an article about two researchers who discovered that mother rats were smarter — specifically in learning and memory capacity — than rats that never had babies.

Begin talking about the grade your child will be going in, the teacher, what he'll be learning and even share your own favorite memories from that grade.

So I believe with all my heart children can have relationships with the siblings they have never known and learn to care about their memory.

A reporter comes across a phone memory chip belonging to a dead IS fighter and sets out to learn more about the young man and his comrades who terrorized the local villages surrounding their hideout.

Rep. Grace Meng (D - Flushing) said the team's proposal «creates a venue for families to make memories, to learn about teamwork and to encourage healthy participation in sports.»

To find out more about what underlies the cognitive decline that occurs with ageing, André Fischer of the European Neuroscience Institute in Göttingen, Germany, and colleagues analysed DNA from the brains of both young and old mice that had been set tasks involving learning and memory.

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Researchers are using the sea hare model to learn about individual cells function, discover the chemical pathways controlling various brain activities and to study how memories are processed and stored.

These results suggest the same effect can impact a patient's learning and memory during a time when they are receiving critical information about their care.

Learning to play an instrument brings about dramatic brain changes that not only improve musical skills but can also spill over into other cognitive abilities, including speech, language, memory, attention, IQ and even empathy.

Because the poisoned sea lions also have seizures, neuroscientists can learn more about epilepsy and memory loss in humans by studying these marine mammals, he says.

Although the precise role of neurogenesis in memory is still controversial, more than a decade of research has demonstrated that boosting neurogenesis with exercise and antidepressants such as Prozac can increase rodents» ability to learn new information about places and events.

Dresler and his team are still analyzing their brain scan data to learn more about the differences in brain connectivity patterns they found and how they affect memory.

With the novel genetic access to hippocampal chandelier cells developed in the Taniguchi Lab at MPFI, neuroscientists can begin asking questions about the function of these cells within learning and memory circuits.

«It's not about the details of what we teach them,» says Stefan, who today uses computational methods to investigate learning and memory as a lecturer (equivalent to assistant professor) at the University of Edinburgh.

The findings provide fundamental new knowledge about how memory works, Zeithamova said, and eventually could lead to new strategies in educational settings that help students to consolidate new information with previously learned material to build stronger cognitive maps of various topics.

Episodic memory involves the ability to learn, store, and retrieve information about unique personal experiences that occur in daily life.

Pointing to the change in amygdala activity, which is central to the brain's system of storing and recalling fearful memories (see How Fear Works to learn about this process), the researchers say the memory was not simply disconnected from fear, but that it was actually erased in its entirety.

«We've learned a lot about the brain from mice, but I think we can all agree that mice and humans are very different,» says Li - Huei Tsai, a neuroscientist at the Picower Institute for Memory and Learning at MIT who studies the neurobiology of Alzheimer's disease.

Before having the conversation, take some time to really dig deep into your memory bank and remember how you first learned about sexuality.

«Evidence - based psychotherapy is about learning of new information, and memory studies generally suggest that learning is better in the morning.»

«So we also worry about brain damage — and with multiple episodes of heavy drinking, that damage can have long - term consequences for learning and memory.»

As knowledge about the disease improved, researchers learned that amyloid starts to build up years, perhaps even decades, before the first symptoms of memory and cognitive problems start.

In this episode Rhonda talks about how heat stress from using the sauna makes the body more resilient to the stresses of aging, possible reasons why one study associated sauna use with up to a 40 % lower all - cause mortality as well as a 50 % lower cardiovascular disease related mortality, how it enhances athletic endurance, staves off muscle atrophy, improves regrowth of muscle after disuse, and some of the profound effects on the brain, including the growth of new brain cells, improvement in focus, learning, and memory, and even potentially ameliorating depression and anxiety.

But, what I want to ask you is about Beta - hydroxybutyrate, the fact that it increases brain - derived neurotrophic factor production, which is also important for learning, memory and neurogenesis.