Ayumu, a 7-year old chimp living in a lab at Kyoto University, was in the news the last month for his remarkable cognitive performance. In a test of working memory, Ayumu and 5 other chimpanzees were able to outclass college students. Watch him go at it here.
Have you got what it takes to outsmart [...]
By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Hopefully some of us have or will set some realistic and flexible New Year’s resolutions for 2008. Of course a good resolution doesn’t necessarily translate to reality, as they tend to fade from our everyday recollection. To remind you of your goals throughout the [...]
Recent activities in the Lumosity brain training program:
We just released the latest memory exercise, titled Moneycomb, in which you must remember the location of coins in a honeycomb layout. This exercise targets attention and spatial working memory, and is now available from the trainer.
We also just introduced “Lumosity Points”, which are awarded for completing games [...]
Adults with memory problems are still able to improve their cognitive performance with cognitive training, according to research published this week in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.
Though adults with memory problems did not improve their impaired ability to memorize new material, they still had the capacity to improve in other areas. Specifically, the [...]
By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Although acronyms are usually used to shorten a lengthy phrase, coming up with your own acronyms can be a helpful aid in remembering long grocery lists or building up your vocabulary for an upcoming exam. For those who don’t know, acronyms are formed using the [...]
By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Researchers from Stanford might have found a biological marker for Alzheimer’s disease via a simple blood test. This is exciting news given that it might predict the onset of the disease several years before the symptoms begin. The procedure involves examining 18 key proteins in [...]
By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
If you are like me and have trouble remembering the names of people you first meet, then this mnemonic is dedicated to you. A helpful way to remember names is to say that person’s name after meeting him, and from then on associating his name [...]
By contributing author Paul Li, a neuroscience graduate student at Columbia.
Memory strategies - or mnemonics - can be used to help you put things into memory so that they’re easier to remember later. Those who forget their keys or have trouble remembering peoples’ names could benefit from these tips. We previously described a way to [...]
Working memory capacity is closely related to general intelligence. This has been observed in several different studies that evaluate the correlation between measures of intelligence and working memory.
A study published last week affirmed this finding, and also furthered our understanding of the factors underlying working memory capacity. Awh, Barton, and Vogel’s research showed that working [...]
