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“What makes a great violinist, physicist, or crossword puzzle solver? Are experts born or made? The question has intrigued psychologists since psychology was born—and the rest of us, too, who may secretly fantasize playing duets with Yo Yo Ma or winning a Nobel Prize in science. It’s no wonder Malcolm Gladwell stayed atop the bestseller lists by popularizing the “10,000-hour rule” of Florida State University psychologist K. Anders Ericsson. Using Ericsson’s pioneering work—but...

Celebrated writers such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot described characters' faces vividly without going into detail about their features, according to a research group led at Strathclyde. Experts in literature, psychology, neurology and music suggested that vividness can be created not only by describing individual features, such as the eyes, nose or chin, but by the strength of readers’ feelings about how a person is depicted. These feelings may be triggered by the ‘mirror...

Carriers of the so-called KIBRA T allele have better memories than those who don’t have this gene variant. This means we can reject the theory that the brain of a non-bearer compensates for this. This is shown by researchers from Umeå University. Carriers of the so-called KIBRA T allele have better memories than those who don't have this gene variant. This means we can reject the theory that the brain of a non-bearer compensates for this. This is shown by researchers from Umeå...

New Product Release by Centon Electronics Aliso Viejo, CA (PRWEB) October 13, 2011 Centon Electronics, Inc. has announced the release of a new DDR3-1600 VLP Registered Mini-DIMM design. It was developed specifically for systems that require a high-density solution, that won't compromise reliability or performance that also need a smaller form factor. The design comes in a registered, error correcting code (ECC), very low profile (VLP) module with a capacity up to 8GB, which is...

Scientists said in a new study that sex can actually wipe someone's memory. Researchers cite a case of a 54-year-old women who arrived at a hospital in Washington DC who had just been intimate with her husband and then lost all recollection of the past 24 hours. The team said this condition is known as "transient global amnesia" which is temporary. "We don't know very much about the cause. It causes a lot of alarm, but this is not a stroke or an event that causes damage to the brain....

EDINBURGH, Scotland, October 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Edinburgh-based company 6S Ltd have launched CueMemories [http://www.cuememories.com ], the first and only web service to store and retrieve digital media by replicating the simple and effective functions of the human brain. This unique patented technology is based on episodic memory - the memory which stores personal experiences - and negates the need for the time-consuming process of semantic tagging we are used...

“False memories tend to get a bad rap,” says developmental psychologist Mark L. Howe, of Lancaster University in England. Indeed, remembering events incorrectly or remembering events that didn’t happen can have grave consequences, such as the criminal conviction of an innocent person. “But false memories are a natural outcropping of memory in general. They must have some positive effect, too.” That argument—that memory illusions were evolutionarily adaptive and remain useful...

Research provides new insight into why some of us are better than others at remembering what really happened A structural variation in a part of the brain may explain why some people are better than others at distinguishing real events from those they might have imagined or been told about, researchers have found. The University of Cambridge scientists found that normal variation in a fold at the front of the brain called the paracingulate sulcus (or PCS) might explain why some people...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Everyone has experienced the unsettling feeling of waking up and forgetting where you are. The feeling goes away quickly, but it's certainly a deep confusion while it lasts. An article published in this week's edition of the journal Nature, may have answers to the question so many of us have had, "Where am I?!" So, what actually happens inside your head during moments like these? While you may think your brain is momentarily confused, it's actually just in transition....

'Teleportation' of rats sheds light on how the memory is organized You're rudely awakened by the phone. Your room is pitch black. It's unsettling, because you're a little uncertain about where you are – and then you remember. You're in a hotel room. Sound like a familiar experience? Or maybe you've felt a similar kind of disorientation when you walk out of an elevator onto the wrong floor? But what actually happens inside your head when you experience moments like these? In an...