According to neuroscientist Ellen Bialystok, people who are fluent in two languages have healthier brains. Ellen Bialystok, an eminent research professor of psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada, says speaking 2 or more languages regularly from an early age has a positive impact on the brain. Apart from enhancing cognitive abilities, bilingualism could also [...] Read more…
A cool head could be just the thing for a good night’s sleep. Doctors have developed a cap containing tubes of cooled water that soothes over-active minds, letting the wearer to disconnect and get some quality shut eye. US researchers have discovered that insomniacs fell asleep quickly & had a restful night after wearing a special [...] Read more…
It’s a ray of hope for the visually challenged – a new study has shown that the blind can develop “sonar”, i.e., learning to ‘see’ their way like bats by identifying objects from sounds echoing off them. It a known fact that bats make use of echolocation – the ability to identify objects using sounds alone [...] Read more…
“Brain Speller” – a technological marvel developed by Canberra University students capable of reading people’s thoughts & transforming them into words using a computer screen. The product will help many Australians who require assistance in communicating or face trouble doing so because of some disease or disability. Paul Du, the Team leader, hopes that this [...] Read more…
Left-handed persons are more afraid than right-handers, according to psychologists. Left-handed test volunteers who watched a small 8-minute clip of the scary movie The Silence of the Lambs displayed greater symptoms related to post traumatic stress disorder compared to right-handed people. When told to recall the film details, the left-handed subjects gave more rambling,disjointed and [...] Read more…
Excessive sleep or very little sleep tends to dull the brain in middle-aged people. Men and women who shift from sleeping 6-8 hours every night to sleeping more or less at the onset of middle-age score lower on practically every cognitive function test. The magnitude of this mental decline is equivalent to 4-7 years of aging. [...] Read more…
