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/PRNewswire/ -- A team of researchers from Germany, the USA, the UK, and Norway won the third edition of the BIAL Award in Biomedicine, a 300,000 Euro prize...

Edward Kelly, PhD, will deliver a keynote address at the 14th annual Bial Foundation Symposium and receive the prestigious Myers Memorial Medal from SPR.

Registrations are now open for the 14th "Behind and Beyond the Brain" Symposium, promoted by the BIAL Foundation, which will debate the theme "Creativity", from 3 to 6 April at the Casa do Médico, in Porto.

Study tests brain as psi inhibitor: Frontal lobes act as filter, suppressing innate psi abilities.

A study reveals that experienced meditators are able to voluntarily modulate their state of consciousness during meditation, i.e. they have the unusual ability, without the use of drugs, to induce a momentary void of consciousness during cessations through large-scale modulation of brain activity.

Massey University associate professor will work with international team to study terminal lucidity in children

Study found no correlation to substantiate the claim that better autobiographical memory enhances creativity or creative thinking.

Human multitasking suffers from a central attentional bottleneck preventing parallel performance of central mental operations, leading to profound deferments in task performance. While previous research assumed that the deferment is caused by a mere waiting time (refractory period), we show that the bottleneck requires executive functions (EF; active scheduling account) accounting for a profound part of the deferment. Three participant groups with EF impairments (dyslexics, highly neurotics, dep...