Random reward increases memory

by | Jul 28, 2020

Most learning if not all, is regulated by risk and reward. Almost every behaviour is either to gain pleasure or avoid pain. It makes total sense from an evolutionary perspective and especially in an environment rich with distraction and opportunity to have a brain...

Relieving Parkinson’s with Beta brainwaves

by | Jul 27, 2020

This is some cool research. Of the various types of brainwaves we experience on a daily basis, beta waves (12 – 38 cycles per second approximately) are mostly present during activity either physically or mentally. A lack of this frequency of brain activity can lead to...

Speech rate effects brainwaves

by | Jul 26, 2020

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU LISTEN TO… Ever found yourself finishing someone’s…______? (sentence) Recent research shows that the rate at which someone talks effects the brain of those listening. Neural entrainment (another way of saying brainwave entrainment)...

Near infrared light as a brain scanner

by | Jul 24, 2020

The red end of the light spectrum has a wavelength that starts at about 620nm (nano metres) and goes to about 750nm. Higher than that and it turns in to non visible light called near infra-red (NIR) and infra-red (IR). There is a lot of research happening with this...