Con sólo 100.000 neuronas, la mosca de la fruta Drosophila Melanogaster confirma que el sueño no sólo es bueno para la piel y el estado de ánimo, sino también para la memoria. Investigadores estadounidenses del Instituto de Investigación Scripps de Florida publicaron en la revista Cell que recuerdo y olvido son dos procesos estrechamente relacionados, […]
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Can creativity be trained? Music and the brain
Creativity is defined by novelty and meaningfullness and the creative production involves the generation of new possibilities as well as the selection and combination of previously produced ones. Several areas in the brain have been related with creativity: dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex, the presupplementary motor area, and the inferior frontal gyrus (see […]
The creative brain: “the imagination network”
Cognitive neuroscientists are investigating what happens in the brain during the creative process. Conventional notions about creativity were based on the differences between the right and left brain. The left brain was considered to be responsible for realistic, practical, analytical and logical functions whereas the right brain was supposed to be involved in creativity and […]
Unos cuidados adecuados podrían ser protectores para un correcto desarrollo cerebral
Caregivers’ support is crucial to mitigating negative effects of poverty. Poverty impacts brain development negatively. But if parents provide adequate support they can ameliorate those effects. Reference: Luby J., et al. The Effects of Poverty on Childhood Brain Development. JAMA Pediatr, published online October 28, 2013. Poverty has a deleterious effect on child development and neurocognitive […]
Un libro puede quedar grabado en tu cerebro
Long- and short-term changes can be seen in brain connectivity after reading a novel Brooklyn Art Library by Joel Zimmer on Flickr. “It seems plausible that if something as simple as a book can leave the impression that one’s life has been changed, then perhaps it is powerful enough to cause changes in brain function […]
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