neuroscience

Research by Canadian and French scientists reveals that bilingual two-year-olds have cognitive benefits and greater attention control. The findings are published in the 'Journal of Experimental Child Psychology'.

By measuring the activity of a single neuron, researchers at Yale University (USA) have been able to predict what decision we will make about saving or spending a certain amount of money. Details are published in the latest issue of 'Neuron' magazine.

According to a study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience, the larger a person's amygdala, the greater the number of friends and family with whom they interact. This relationship between the size of the amygdala and the size of an individual's social network occurs at any age and in both sexes.

A study from the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience in London suggests that the brain continues to develop after childhood and puberty and that it is not fully mature until we are over 30 years old, and even after reaching the age of 40.

A study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience suggests that mammals born in a winter light cycle suffer alterations in their biological clocks in adult life compared to those born in summer, which can cause depression, schizophrenia ...

When we sleep with the light or television on, the risk of depression increases, according to a study by Ohio State University (USA) presented at the last annual meeting of the American Neuroscience Society in San Diego.

Researchers at the University of Reading (UK) have started a project to scan the brains of influencers to find out how they make decisions using information that can be complicated and even conflicting.

Learning to read, a phenomenon too recent to have influenced genetic evolution, has a significant impact on the brain, which adapts and uses, regardless of the age of literacy, brain regions destined for other functions.