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Keeping the beat – it’s all in your brain

Keeping the beat – it’s all in your brain

The coordination of actions and sounds has long baffled neuroscientists.

Nutrition and memory

Nutrition and memory

Dietary changes are necessary with age.

Playing the drums shapes the brain

Playing the drums shapes the brain

Playing the drums leaves a long term impression on the brain.

Excessive athletic exercise can tire the brain

Excessive athletic exercise can tire the brain

Prolonged athletic training has similar cognitive effects with prolonged intellectual...

Physical fitness is associated with better cognitive abilities

Physical fitness is associated with better cognitive abilities

Physical fitness is associated with better cognitive abilities and healthier white...

Cognitive benefits of walking

Cognitive benefits of walking

Apart from the obvious health benefits that walking bestows, regular walking has...

Music lessons improve school performance

Music lessons improve school performance

Students taking music lessons at school perform better than their non-musical peers...

The genius of Bach

The genius of Bach

The clues we have today that Bach was a genius.

How students view intelligence affects how they internalize stress

How students view intelligence affects how they internalize...

The belief that smartness can be developed leads high schools students to become...

Just the scent of coffee can improve your analytical thinking

Just the scent of coffee can improve your analytical thinking

The scent of coffee has been show to boost performance on the analytical part of...

How music lessons can improve language skills

How music lessons can improve language skills

Piano lessons teach kindergartners how to distinguish pitch and thus better discriminate...

Feeling how old I am: Subjective age is associated with estimated brain age

Feeling how old I am: Subjective age is associated with...

Published results link subjective age to estimated brain ageing.

Sitting is bad for the brain

Sitting is bad for the brain

Too much sitting is linked to thinning of a brain area (medial temporal lobe), where...

Day-time naps help us acquire information not consciously perceived

Day-time naps help us acquire information not consciously...

Day time naps help us process information that we are not consciously aware of and...