By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and UCSF, and science writer for Lumos Labs.
Eating lots of fish, the ultimate brain food, was recently associated with reduced risk of stroke.
A study conducted by Jyrki Virtanen and his crew at the University of Kuopio in Finland found that people who ate more fish tended [...]
By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and UCSF, and science writer for Lumos Labs.
Your brain is made up of 60% water and many of us may not be drinking enough of the clear wet stuff to keep our thinking “juicy.”
Not drinking enough water has detrimental effects on our brains. [...]
By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and science writer for Lumos Labs .
It seems that working memory training may work by physically altering the brain. Stockholm Brain Institute researchers put healthy people through working memory exercises for 35 minutes per day over a period of 5 weeks. Changes in dopamine receptor density [...]
By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and UCSF, and science writer for Lumos Labs.
Scientists at the university of Sydney in Australia have recently claimed to be able to make people’s memory more accurate by reducing the occurrence of false memories… via magnets.
Although it is often possible to increase [...]
By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and science writer for Lumos Labs.
It turns out there may be a link between cardiovascular fitness and the size of one’s hippocampus, a portion of the brain important for the formation of new memories.
Researchers from the University of Illinois and the University of Pittsburgh, [...]
You know those awkward moments when you’re supposed to know someone’s name but don’t… or where you have to ask someone to repeat themselves because you weren’t paying attention?
Well Lumos Labs has devised a new brain game to help you avoid those embarrassing situations. Its called Familiar Faces, and as the title implies, it involves [...]
By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and science writer for Lumos Labs .
A new study indicates that focusing too much might actually diminish your ability to pay attention. The researchers, based out of Carnegie Mellon University, used a phenomenon called the attentional blink as the center of their investigation.
An attentional [...]
By Gregory Kellett, a cognitive neuroscience researcher at SFSU and science writer for Lumos Labs .
Data collected by Agnes Flöel and her crew at the University of Munster in Germany seems to give yet another reason to resist that second helping of chocolate cake.
The research compared short-term memory performance of overweight individuals who [...]
