Sentences with phrase «study memory and learning»

Kessler Foundation scientists collaborated with colleagues in Spain to study memory and learning in patients with Parkinson Disease (PD).

Henry Roediger and colleagues have studied memory and learning and found that if one simply studies and studies again, he or she does not master the material as well as if they study, are tested, then study again.

Not exact matches

A study of older women with MCI found a tie between aerobic exercise and an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

While alcohol is often associated with a poorer memory, the study explained that, «alcohol blocks the learning of new information and therefore the brain has more resources available to lay down other recently learned information into long - term memory.»

Another study, this time of exclusively older women with MCI, found that aerobic exercise was tied to an increase in the size of the hippocampus, a brain area involved in learning and memory.

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.

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.

Psychology can study the behavior of animals and try to guess what forms of perception, emotion, memory, and perhaps learning or problem solving of simple kinds are going on in these creatures.

Studies have shown improvements in memory and learning while reducing symptoms of depression (5, 6, 7)

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

«In animal studies, exercise has been shown to specifically affect the hippocampus, significantly increasing the growth of new neurons and cell survival, enhancing memory and learning, and increasing molecules that are involved in the plasticity of the brain,» Chaddock said.

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

More and more recent studies have shown just how detrimental not getting your eight hours can be for someone in a position that relies on learning, memory and critical thinking.

Studies of laboratory animals have shown that even small doses of these chemicals impair attention, learning, memory, and behavior.

Studies done of neglected children who did not receive adequate affection from another human being showed that these poor babies often suffered from chronic stress, a condition which may negatively effect the parts of the brain responsible for memory, focus and learning.

«Our data show that non-lethal doses of flupyradifurone after a single application to collecting honeybees have a negative impact on the bees» taste, learning and memory capability,» Ricarda Scheiner sums up the study result.

The kids in the new study were part of a long - term study of cultural differences in memory and learning.

As program officer for the IES Cognition and Student Learning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning andLearning research grants program, Dr. Albro oversaw the preparation of an IES Practice Guide, Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning andLearning, which identified a set of instructional principles for use in schools and classrooms that emerged from basic research on learning andlearning and memory.

A new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine has determined that poorer childhood cognition occurred, particularly in memory and learning, when pregnant women or their offspring consumed greater quantities of sugar.

Johnson is a research scientist studying sleep, memory, and learning, and is the education manager for internships at the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering, based at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In other studies, Sonntag's group has shown that infusing IGF - 1 into the brain improves memory and learning in elderly rodents.

In a breakthrough study that could improve how people learn and retain information, the researchers significantly boosted the memory and mental performance of laboratory mice through electrical stimulation.

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.

«This is a well - established method for measuring spatial learning and memory,» study first author Takeru Shima says.

In a study published online June 21 in the Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, the researchers show that the consumption of extra-virgin olive oil protects memory and learning ability and reduces the formation of amyloid - beta plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain — classic markers of Alzheimer's disease.

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 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 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.

A study has given new insights into how sleep contributes to brain plasticity — the ability for our brain to change and reorganize itself — and could pave the way for new ways to help people with learning and memory disorders.

The results show that distinct genetic profiles underlie specific memory processes: The study reports, for example, associations between a transporter protein set and the process of learning as well as between a cell adhesion set and the process of memory storage.

«But scientists are studying whether the Parkinson's drug levodopa, which can ease movement symptoms, can also influence brain functions such as memory, quick thinking and learning.»

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

The study was published online in January in the journal Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.

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.

A mouse study suggests marijuana may have the opposite effect on older people than it has on the young, boosting learning and memory instead of impairing it

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that narrowing of the carotid artery in the neck without any symptoms may be linked to problems in learning, memory, thinking and decision - making, compared to people with similar risk factors but no narrowing in the neck artery, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014.

A new study provides an illustration of the power that reward has over learning and memory.

«Hybrid chickadees found deficient at learning and memory: First study to identify deficiencies in learning and memory in a hybrid of any species could provide new clues to hybrids» selective disadvantage.»

«Clinical studies are starting to show that adolescents who drink early and consistently across the college years have some deficits in learning and memory,» said senior author Scott Swartzwelder, Ph.D., professor in psychiatry at Duke.

According to McQuillan, a Ph.D. candidate in evolutionary biology at Lehigh and lead author of the study, the northern Black - capped Chickadee is a model species for studying spatial memory and learning, traits that are key to scatter - hoarders» survival.

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.

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

«We behave the way we do in a specific situation because we have learned an association — a memory — tying an environmental cue to a behavior,» said Nobuyoshi Suto, TSRI Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, who co-led the study with TSRI Professor Friedbert Weiss and Bruce Hope, a principal investigator at the National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Drug Abuse.

In the new study, he and his colleagues set out to examine how rats learn to press levers to get sugar water — and where they store those motivational memories.

Previous studies have found that exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides can cause changes in the brain, more specifically in the areas associated with learning and memory in honeybees.

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.

Over the past five to 10 years, studies of brain activity during sleep have provided some of the first direct evidence that the brain employs a Boltzmann - like learning algorithm in order to integrate new information and memories into its structure.

In the new study, Fernández, along with Eelco van Dongen and their colleagues, tested the effects of a single session of physical exercise after learning on memory consolidation and long - term memory.

Fernández says they will now use a similar experimental setup to study the timing and molecular underpinnings of exercise and its influence on learning and memory in more detail.

It is not clear why a study of memory in adults would be health - related and yet learning in children would not, several researchers argued in comments.

This ongoing study, the PACt - MD study, combines brain training exercises and brain stimulation, using a mild electrical current to stimulate brain cells and improve learning and memory.

The effect of aging on cognitive processes such as learning, memory and logical reasoning have so far been studied almost exclusively in people.