Imagine trying to remember a series of numbers in reverse order, but your ability to hear is compromised. Well, that’s what researchers simulated in this study to understand how age-related hearing loss affects cognitive performance. By simulating mild-to-moderate hearing loss in young participants, they found that the performance on the backward-digit-span task was impaired, especially […]
Alzheimer’s disease is like a puzzle with missing pieces, causing dementia in older adults. Researchers used a special mapping approach to measure the disconnections in the brain and found that patients with Alzheimer’s had decreased functional association in one area of the brain, while showing increased connections between other areas. These altered connections were linked […]
Think of the brain as a concert hall, with different musicians playing their instruments. This research aimed to explore how the musicians (specifically, the hand muscles) are represented in the brain’s symphony. Using a technique called transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), scientists examined two hand muscles in a group of right-handed individuals spanning various adult ages. […]
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