One research article a day, explained clearly.
A real published study, under its real title. A few minutes, and then it ends.
Today2 of 5 this week
J Assoc Consumer Res · 2017No. 3
Attention
Brain Drain
The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity
Read · 4 min
One article a day, and then it ends.
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Every article, in five pages
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1What they asked
Does what a mouse hears change how many new brain cells it makes?
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3What they found
After a week, only the mice kept in silence still had more new cells than the baseline group.
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4What it doesn’t show
Mice, ten to a group. A reason to run a human study, not a finding about humans.
In between, what they did. At the end, what to take from it: the finding in one sentence, and one small thing to try.
In the library
- NeuroscienceIs silence golden?
Is silence golden? Effects of auditory stimuli and their absence on adult hippocampal neurogenesis
Brain Struct Funct · 2015
- AttentionJust think
Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind
Science · 2014
- LearningRevisiting the Marshmallow Test
Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Conceptual Replication Investigating Links Between Early Delay of Gratification and Later Outcomes
Psychol Sci · 2018
- JudgmentExtraneous factors in judicial decisions
Extraneous factors in judicial decisions
PNAS · 2011
- SleepSleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain
Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain
Science · 2013
- MemoryRepetition dynamically and rapidly increases cortical, but not hippocampal, offline reactivation
Repetition dynamically and rapidly increases cortical, but not hippocampal, offline reactivation
PNAS · 2024
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perspicuity per-spi-KYOO-i-tee · noun
Clearness of expression.