Cognitive Science

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Unlocking the Genetic Secrets of Alzheimer’s Disease for Personalized Treatments!

Imagine navigating through a maze where every turn represents a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Traditional Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS) have been struggling to accurately predict an individual’s likelihood of developing AD, especially for those with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). But fear not! A brilliant team of scientists has now developed adORS, an interpretable […]

Published on October 26, 2023

Emerging Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics: promising insights from lipid metabolism and microglia-focused interventions

More than 55 million people suffer from dementia, with this number projected to double every 20 years. In the United States, 1 in 3 aged individuals dies from Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or another type of dementia and AD kills more individuals than breast cancer and prostate cancer combined. AD is a complex and multifactorial disease involving […]

Published on October 25, 2023

When Native Speakers Are Not “Native‐Like:” Chunking Ability Predicts (Lack of) Sensitivity to Gender Agreement During Online Processing

Abstract Previous work on individual differences has revealed limitations in the ability of existing measures (e.g., working memory) to predict language processing. Recent evidence suggests that an individual’s sensitivity to detect the statistical regularities present in language (i.e., “chunk sensitivity”) may significantly modulate online sentence processing. We investigated whether individual chunk sensitivity predicted the online […]

Published on October 24, 2023