Spice up your cognition with curcumin Being able to stay focused and having a strong memory is what mostly all students wish for. So, is there a way to fulfill that wish easily with just a few tweaks to our culinary habits? Iliana Samara • June 23, 2015
Optimize adaptive behavior through meditation! Stuck in a rut? When feeling that your thinking has become rigid, what should you do for promoting a more flexible thinking? Meditate! Iliana Samara • May 19, 2015
How loving cats makes people better in “action control” Cats are often infected with Toxoplasma gondii, and transfer this to humans. How can this parasite help us to be better in controlling our actions? Lorenza Colzato and Laura Steenbergen • December 16, 2014
The Good Of Chocolate Cognition “Anything is good if it’s made of chocolate” stated comedian Jo Brand. The popularity of chocolate is undeniable but what effect does the consumption of chocolate have on our cognition? Jorinde Gerrmann • November 25, 2014 • 2 comments
Meditation makes you more creative! Certain meditation techniques can promote creative thinking even if you are not a practitioner. Hence, it is not the amount of practice, but the state that mediation puts you in that makes you more creative. Lorenza Colzato • October 28, 2014
Give some attention to meditation (and get some in return) What is happening inside the brain while a person meditates and how does it affect the way we process the world around us? Dominique Lippelt • October 07, 2014
Reversing the effects of aging It sounds like science fiction: Having someone else’s body sown onto your own body; having their young blood flow through your old veins to reverse the effects of aging and become younger. But this isn’t fiction, this is recent science. Eefje Poppelaars • July 01, 2014 • 1 comment
