Neuroscientists from Northwestern University and clinicians from the University of Chicago Epilepsy Center recently published a study that explored the relationship between memory and sleep. Researchers studied brain electrical activity in five of the center’s patients in response to sounds administered...
For those who rarely forget a face, but struggle with names, the remedy for boosting learning may as near as your pillow. New research by Northwestern University is the first to document the effect reactivating memory during sleep has on face-name...
Weinberg College community members recently were in the media, sharing their expertise. View the articles below. Long before movies and screens, Chicago went nuts for something called cycloramas Chicago Tribune 10/19 The Chicago History Museum cyclorama is a small stunner and is accompanied...
Professor Ken Paller, of the Department of Psychology, found in a new study that learning a novel physical action can be enhanced during sleep. These findings suggest that the rehabilitation of stroke survivors and people with neurological disorders can be accelerated...
The study “Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep” was published in Current Biology on February 18. Professor Ken Paller, of the Department of Psychology and director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Program, was senior author of the study showed...
