Month: March 2024

Brainwaves Show Dogs Help People Concentrate, Relax

Playing fetch or grooming Fido isn’t just good for your precious pooch – it also benefits your brain. Such interactions appear to strengthen brain waves associated with rest and relaxation, South Korean researchers report in the March 13 issue of the journal PLOS One. Their… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, […]

Published on March 19, 2024

Amid Mental Health Staffing Crunch, Medi-Cal Patients Help One Another

VALLEJO, Calif. — Three people gathered in a classroom on a recent rainy afternoon listened intently as Derrick Cordero urged them to turn their negative feelings around. “What I’m hearing is that you’re a self-starter,” he told one participant, who had taken up gardening but yearned for a community with which to share the hobby. […]

Published on March 19, 2024

Inducing Novel Sound–Taste Correspondences via an Associative Learning Task

Abstract The interest in crossmodal correspondences, including those involving sounds and involving tastes, has experienced rapid growth in recent years. However, the mechanisms underlying these correspondences are not well understood. In the present study (N = 302), we used an associative learning paradigm, based on previous literature using simple sounds with no consensual taste associations […]

Published on March 18, 2024