Tag Archives: psychology

Neuroscience News: Multitasking Is Many Skills, Not One

Posted on June 5, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Multitasking Is Many Skills, Not One Featured Neuroscience Psychology ·June 5, 2025 Summary: A new study reveals that multitasking isn’t a single, universal skill, but a combination of broad cognitive abilities and task-specific skills. Researchers tested 224 participants across nine different … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: ECT … personal experience … it was of benefit to me

Posted on June 1, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Brain ‘Reset Wave’ May Explain How ECT Rapidly Relieves Depression FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology ·May 31, 2025 Summary: Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), long misunderstood due to outdated portrayals, remains the most effective treatment for severe, treatment-resistant mental illness. While traditionally thought to work solely through … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience.com Eye Movements … so very important to know

Posted on May 11, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Eye Movements Set the Speed Limit for What You Can See FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience ·May 10, 2025 Summary: The speed of your eye movements, called saccades, determines how fast an object can move before it becomes invisible to you. Objects that mimic … Continue reading →

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Personality Traits Strongly Linked to Mental Health Risks. Source: Neuroscience.com

Posted on May 2, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

The researchers stress that people’s personalities do not determine their mental health problems. Credit: Neuroscience News Personality Traits Strongly Linked to Mental Health Risks FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology May 2, 2025 Summary: A major study of over 16,000 participants found that personality traits explain … Continue reading →

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Neuroscience News: Logical thinking and the right frontal lobe. Comment: (Neuropsychological assessment showed this in my case in mid 1990s post TBI)

Posted on April 27, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Critical Hub for Logical Thinking Identified Featured Neuroscience ·April 26, 2025 Summary: Researchers have identified that the right frontal lobe plays a critical role in logical thinking and problem-solving. Using lesion-deficit mapping in 247 patients with brain injuries, they found that … Continue reading →

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Neoscope – Futurism: Human Intelligence Sharply Declining. Quote: “…but one key indicator is the sharp decline in reading and the world’s changing relationship to the way we consume information and media. In 2022, for example, the National Endowment for the Arts found that just 37.6 percent of Americans said they’d read a novel or short story in the year prior — a share down from 41.5 percent in 2017 and 45.2 percent in 2012…”

Posted on March 17, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Mar 16, 6:45 AM EDT/ by Noor Al-Sibai Human Intelligence Sharply Declining The benchmarks are not looking good, folks. No, it’s not just you — people really are less smart than they used to be. As the Financial Times reports, assessments show that people across … Continue reading →

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Brain’s Working Memory Limits Tied to Learning, Not Just Capacity

Posted on February 26, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

Brain’s Working Memory Limits Tied to Learning, Not Just Capacity FeaturedNeuroscience ·February 25, 2025 Summary: A new study reveals that working memory limitations stem from learning challenges rather than storage capacity. Using a computer model of the basal ganglia and thalamus, … Continue reading →

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Tribute to pioneering cognitive neuroscientist Professor Eleanor Maguire. Comment so sad to read about the passing of Professor Eleanor Maguire. Ironically, when I had breast cancer 2017/18 and was writing a book about same and the impact of TBI, amnesia, loss of olfactory sense of smell, et al, I came across her work and it provided so many answers at the time, I wrote to her and she kindly replied with other links too. Below is the tribute from UCL. Quote: This is core to loss due to TBI in my case: “Eleanor substantiated her “Scene Construction Theory” with numerous studies that showed how the hippocampus constantly constructs spatially coherent scenes, automatically synthesising and anticipating representations of the world beyond what was immediately presented to the sensorium (the part of the brain that processes sensory information).This, she proposed, was what enables us to re-experience the past (memory) and imagine future events and places which is – of course – essential for navigation.

Posted on February 19, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

UCL NewsHome Tribute to pioneering cognitive neuroscientist Professor Eleanor Maguire 15 January 2025 UCL colleagues and alumni have paid tribute to the award-winning researcher, Professor Eleanor Maguire, whose groundbreaking studies into spatial awareness and memory, led to a deeper understanding … Continue reading →

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How the Brain Processes Space and Time. Comment: TBI … a great explanation that is so difficult for a person to understand

Posted on January 29, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

How the Brain Processes Space and Time FeaturedNeuroscienceVisual Neuroscience ·January 27, 2025 Summary: New research highlights a functional hierarchy in the brain’s processing of space and time. In posterior areas, like the occipital cortex, space and time are tightly linked and … Continue reading →

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Quora: If an IQ of 130 is so common (1 in 50), why do people treat it as super special? Comment: How do people with high IQ’s with people who sustain TBI, have amnesia, aphasia, partially deaf, no smell, vision problems or for that matter people who have strokes.

Posted on January 16, 2025 by michelleclarke2015

David Gardner ·  Follow Works at U.S. Department of Defense Sep 14 If an IQ of 130 is so common (1 in 50), why do people treat it as super special? Because 98% of the population has a lower IQ. A lot of … Continue reading →

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