According to a study conducted by the University of California, adults ages 59 to 82 are more resistant to total sleep deprivation than youth ages 19 to 38. Specifically, the researchers showed that after 36 hours without sleep, older adults kept their working memory, selective attention and verbal skills almost intact.
Surely more than once when approaching someone you have recognized their face but you have been unable to remember their name. Neuroscientists at the University of Bristol (UK) have identified the brain circuit behind these memory mechanisms.
Neuroscientists from New York University (USA) have identified the parts of the brain that we use to remember the succession of events within an episode of our life, such as a party or a wedding. The study, which appears in the latest issue of the journal Science, improves our understanding of how memories are processed.
Interrupted sleep affects the ability to form memories and this could help explain some memory-related disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).
According to a study, we use the internet as our "personal data bank" and computers and online search engines have become a kind of "external memory" system that can be accessed at will of the user and to which human memory it is adapting.
Neuroscientists at the MIT Institute have discovered that the left and right hemispheres of our brain function like two independent brains when it comes to processing the world around us. And each one processes and remembers at most two elements.
Taking half a kilo of strawberries a day for two weeks, a group of volunteers has shown that eating this fruit improves the antioxidant capacity of the blood. In addition, strawberries stimulate long-term memory and prevent esophageal cancer.
Do you usually lose your keys? Do you sometimes do not remember where you have parked your car? Good (or bad) memory depends on the state of your brain at all times, according to a study by the University of California Davis published in the journal PNAS.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
