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Chris Chatham is a grad student at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
December 17, 2008
[ 
, Cognitive Neuroscience ]
New work by Minear & Shah shows that as little as 2 hours of practice can promote improvements in multitasking that generalize beyond the particular tasks trained. Specifically, they show that performance on individual tasks can be made more efficient...
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December 15, 2008
[ , Cognitive Neuroscience ]
When you need to stop yourself from committing some response, do you simply freeze - like a deer in the headlights - or can you selectively inhibit only the undesired action? The question is important because the ability to stop...
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December 10, 2008
[ Cognitive Neuroscience, Comparative Psychology, Developmental Psychology ]
In an update to their groundbreaking earlier demonstration that high-IQ children initially show a thinner cortex, and later show an initially thicker one than their average-IQ peers, Shaw et al. have now documented those trajectories of cortical thickening which are...
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