The brain seeks novelty. Passive tasks can lead to skill decline. Challenging the brain with new learning, like a new ...

A recent study by researchers at Harvard Medical School, led by Vishal Patel, sheds light on the connection between spatial ...

A multi-sensory digital treatment protocol, incorporating sensory integration, sensory substitution, and sensory masking (e.g., blindfolding), significantly improved participants’ performance on ...

EPFL researchers have combined virtual reality, non-invasive brain stimulation and advanced brain imaging techniques to improve spatial navigation in healthy participants. The study is a first step in ...

(A) Maze channel design, (B) guiding electric stimulation, (C) punishing electric stimulation, and (D) punishing heat stimulation. The lower-right image is a thermal image of the maze surface. The ...

Researchers at The University of Queensland have identified new regions of the brain crucial to the formation of long-term memory. Associate Professor Kai-Hsiang Chuang from the Queensland Brain ...

In today's high-pressure professional environments, from national security to corporate leadership, memory is a strategic asset. Yet, despite its centrality to decision-making, 1 most modern ...

It’s lunchtime, and you and your friend are hungry. You venture into the kitchen and make your favorite sandwich—peanut butter and jelly. You assume your friend can make the same thing, but they have ...

Usually, forgetting where you put your coffee cup down doesn’t have a major impact on the rest of your life – you can easily retrieve another cup of coffee (and find the other one later, in a cabinet ...