Problems with math? And perhaps with handwriting - and motor skills? Researchers believe that the explanation for your troubles may be that not all of the cells in your eyes work the way they should.
Sleep May Help Clear Brain For New Learning A new theory about sleep's benefits for the brain gets a boost from fruit flies in this week's Science. Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis found evidence that sleep, already recognized as a promoter of long-term memories, also helps clear room in the brain for new learning.
Sleep may help clear brain for learning April 03, 2009 ST. LOUIS, Apr 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Sleep, already recognized as a promoter of long-term memories, also helps clear room in the brain for new learning, U.S. researchers said.
Resting brain activity may be involved in motor learning Most brain imaging experiments tend to follow a similar pattern - instruct the participant to perform some task, or show them a picture, or play them a sound, and then see which areas of their brain light up. This approach has propagated a misconception that the brain has to be prodded into action. But the reality is that the brain constantly beavers away and guzzles just as much energy when we'r
Star-shaped Cells In Brain Help With Learning Every movement and every thought requires the passing of specific information between networks of nerve cells. To improve a skill or to learn something new entails more efficient or a greater number of cell contacts. Scientists can now show that certain cells in the brain -- the astrocytes -- actively influence this information exchange.
Changes In Brain Chemicals Mark Shifts In Infant Learning When do you first leave the nest? Early in development infants of many species experience important transitions -- such as learning when to leave the mother's protection to start exploring the world. Neuroscientists have now pinpointed molecular events occurring in the brain during that turning point. The findings, in animals, may help explain the strength of attachments in many species -- includ
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