Cognitive neuroscience

My college life has been arduous, but it has been an inspiring preparation period for me to build up my knowledge and skills and get ready for graduate-level research in neuroscience. To investigate this field thoroughly, I have spent my 4-year undergraduate study taking a large number of brain-related courses across departments, work on interdisciplinary research in diverse fields, and attend international conferences and…

Carter’s experience includes a master’s degree in neuroscience from at Taiwan University. After completing her master’s, she worked as a research assistant for three years. In 2005, she gained admittance to Case Western Reserve University’s doctoral program. Dr. Carter’s Ph.D. research investigated the role…

“Genes make a difference. Even if we were all raised in the same intellectually stimulating environment, we would have differing aptitudes. But life experiences also matter” This is a quote from the textbook Psychology by David Myers and Nathan Dewall. Intelligence is something complex and difficult to understand where it originates or how much a person can get of it. Our intelligence is based on our ability to learn and capability to understand our surroundings. Many people think how smart we…

however chapter two is more spotlights on consideration and recognition in the waking state. In the waking state, Thompson compared the theories and the discoveries from psychological neuroscience with the Indian Buddhist theories of the attention and the perception. Thompson found that the proof from the neuroscience demonstrating that focused on attention…

From the very beginning we have always been told sleep is a very important part of our daily routine and being sleep deprivation can cause many health problems. However new findings that have been recently in the ‘Journal of Neuroscience’ now tell us that sleep deprivation not only helps the brain loose its sense of proportion but also what is important. A research led by Prof. Talma Hendler of Tel Aviv University’s (TAU’s) Psychological Sciences and graduate student Eti Ben-Simon was…

choices when I can barely hold my eyes open in a lecture, which always leads me to wonder whether my choices have even more effects on me than just a few yawns and the desperate need for a nap after class. How is this lack of sleep affecting my cognitive performance? Is my memory suffering? Does studying do anything for me if I’m running on less than 5 hours of sleep each night? How much sleep does the average college student get per night, and how could more sleep positively impact us all? As I…

The memory works in a process of three stages- encoding, storage and retrieval. This enables humans to learn new material, store the material and then retrieve and extract it at a later date when necessary (Eysenck & Keane, 2010). However, many psychologists have researched the effect of emotion on these stages of memory processing. Many have been interested in the idea of emotion affecting the ability to accurately retrieve past events due to many alternating factors. Some argue that matching…

Introduction This report is going to study the differences between orthodox medicine and complementary therapies for the treatments of conditions that affect different systems of the body. Next, the attitudes of the population towards complementary therapies will be analysed, as well as their psychological effects and contra-indications. The sources of information that claim the benefits of complementary therapies will be evaluated to know their reliability. Finally, it is going to be evaluated…

if a certain part was completely damaged, nothing could be done about it. This led to a belief that treatment for many brain conditions was impractical and unjustified, or that even changing our character was unfeasible. But new discoveries in neuroscience have shown that the brain is actually extremely malleable. In fact, it is always changing with everything we think and experience. We no longer have to succumb to the belief that degeneration of faculties such as memory and mobility are due to…

In author Matthew Lieberman’s “Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect,” he expounds on his research in social neuroscience, where he reveals how essential our need to interact and connect with others around us is and the role that the lack of social interaction is playing in our everyday lives. He goes on to explain that this need to be social is as, if not more, important as our physiological needs, such as food, water, and shelter. Lieberman uses various forms of data collected from…