Sentences with phrase «learning and memory by»

And research suggests mind mapping can improve learning and memory by 10 to 15 % versus conventional note - taking and studying techniques.

Researchers have found that increasing magnesium levels in the brain improves learning and memory by promoting synaptogenesis (28 - 29).

Caffeine potentiated responses of mushroom body neurons involved in olfactory learning and memory by acting as an adenosine receptor antagonist.

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Make sure you've really learned what you think you have learned and that the information is truly stuck in your memory by trying to teach it to others.

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.»

According to a study completed by researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, that is exactly how our brains are wired to work.

Ten years after the official start of the downturn, some entrepreneurs profiled by The Associated Press as the recession began say now that they are grateful but not gleeful; they have many painful memories and lessons learned.

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I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

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.»

Assassins of Memory by Pierre Vidal - Naquet, a French classicist, contains shrewd and learned dissections of the denial literature, with special attention to its rhetorical devices and deceptions.

The real inheritance handed on by a good family is the memories it creates: memories of Mum's and Dad's goodness, of a place where one could take refuge, where one felt understood and learnt to understand others, of quarreling with one's siblings and making up, of forgiving and being forgiven.

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.

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

By using a method like Pick Up, Put Down neurons link together into circuits controlling learning, memory, and social behavior, according to Science News, and in turn, the method affects where neurons end up and the connections they form.

By then, your grown kids won't need to learn or mimic their favorite stuffed animal, but they'll remember and cherish the childhood memories they created with it.

For Keeps: Be creative while you preserve, cherish and share your memories by learning how to scrapbook.

Severe confusion of a degree considered pathological usually refers to loss of orientation (ability to place oneself correctly in the world by time, location, and personal identity), and often memory (ability to correctly recall previous events or learn new materal).

In the study, led by post-doctoral fellow Long N. Nguyen of Duke - NUS, researchers found that mice without the Mfsd2a transporter had brains a third smaller than those with the transporter, and exhibited memory and learning deficits and high levels of anxiety.

«By electrically boosting these nighttime brainwaves, we hope to restore some degree of healthy deep sleep in the elderly and those with dementia, and in doing so, salvage aspects of their learning and memory,» Walker said.

By re-introducing SNX27 into the brain, memory could be restored hence suggesting that SNX27 is an essential protein for memory and learning.

Study after study shows that multitasking leads to errors, fragments our attention, disrupts learning by impeding memory encoding, and tends to lure us away from our primary task.

The test draws on research by co-founder Stuart Zola of Emory University, who studies learning and memory in monkeys.

So I thought that rather than continue, as I had started working on the hippocampus of a very complex structure, involving complex memory, I might go to a simple reflex act that can be modified by learning and see how learning occurs and how memories are stored.

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

The discovery offers a rare glimpse into a mysterious stage of the learning process, and it may one day provide scientists with a new way to treat memory impairments, such as those caused by dementia.

This work was supported by the Berman Laboratory of Learning and Memory at The University of Texas at Dallas and the Jane and Bud Smith Distinguished Chair.

The hippocampus — a region crucially involved in forming «episodic» memories (event recall) and spatial memory (for physical navigation)-- is especially affected by aging, with accompanying declines in the ability to learn and remember; it also deteriorates early on when afflicted by Alzheimer's.

These newborns are left with motor and cognitive deficits that will lead to learning and memory problems by the time they begin school.

Popularly associated with learning and memory, they play a more fundamental role in our existence by regulating everything from breathing, sleeping and waking and other bodily functions.

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.

This is the evaluation of memory and learning function by Passive avoidance test.The passive avoidance apparatus consists of a light and a dark compartment with a hole, across which mice can pass.

But not as miserable as Arnold Schwarzenegger's character in Total Recall, from 1990, in which he learns that his real memories have been erased, that his life is a fake, and that his faux wife, played by Sharon Stone, is trying to kill him.

A research group led by Osaka University and the University of Tokyo found that the intracellular protein trafficking is important for higher brain functions such as learning and memory.

In the new study, Lee's team tested this idea in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease by raising the levels of one of two forms of neuregulin - 1 in the hippocampus, an area of the brain responsible for learning and memory.

«Memristors offer a possible route towards that end by supporting many fundamental features of learning synapses (memory storage, on - line learning, computationally powerful learning rule implementation, two - terminal structure) in extremely compact volumes and at exceptionally low energy costs.

A different possible mechanism, proposed by Juan Salinas, a lecturer specializing in the neuropharmacology of learning and memory at the University of Texas at Austin, resembles the neurobiological hypothesis, given that ADHD involves a dysfunctional release of dopamine in the brain.

«My lab works on the neural bases of learning and memory,» says Pozzo - Miller, «so we decided to test if LM22A - 4 was able to improve spatial discrimination deficits by enhancing synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, the brain region responsible for spatial learning and memory.»

While most linguists accept Chomsky's theory, his critics hold an alternate view: that we learn to speak merely by trial and error, building up from memory the information and associations we need to assemble words into meaningful sentences.

It turns out that the structure and function of brain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wolff.

By genetically engineering a smarter than average mouse, scientists have assembled some of the central molecular components of learning and memory

Learning and memory are governed by a mechanism of sustainable synaptic strengthening.

Smart drugs are supposed to work in one of two main ways: either by increasing blood flow to the brain, or boosting the levels of one or other of the neurotransmitters thought to play a part in learning and memory.

The scientists confirmed that these mice have learning problems by testing them in a Morris water maze, a common lab test of animal learning and memory.

In 2012, a first study conducted by the teams of Professors Yves Vandermeeren and Patrice Laloux allowed to demonstrate that tDCS amplified the motor learning and the long - term motor memory of the patient after a stroke.

This conclusion is provocative because the dogma has been that a memory is instead stored by synaptic strength,» says Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, the director of the RIKEN - MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and the study's senior amemory is instead stored by synaptic strength,» says Susumu Tonegawa, the Picower Professor of Biology and Neuroscience, the director of the RIKEN - MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, and the study's senior aMemory, and the study's senior author.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — A scientific team led by the Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco has discovered that a common form of a gene already associated with long life also improves learning and memory, a finding that could have implications for treating age - related diseases like Alzheimer's.

Next, the scientists want to test which types of memory and learning may be selected for by the activation of gatekeeper cells.

With such knowledge, it may be possible to stimulate these nerve cells by artificial means, for example by selective nicotine - like drugs, to improve memory and learning in humans.

In a study published today online in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers led by Yadong Huang, MD, PhD, reported that apoE4 - dependent learning and memory deficits are caused by loss of a specific type of neuron in the learning and memory center of the brain.