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Cognitive Crescendo: How Music Shapes the Brain’s Structure and Function
Brain Sciences, 2023 Music is a complex phenomenon with multiple brain areas and neural connections being implicated. Centuries ago, music was discovered as an efficient modality for psychological status enrichment and even for the treatment of multiple pathologies.
Corneliu Toader +8 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Mastering transcription skills is an important goal in the development of children's written language abilities, and handwriting fluency and spelling accuracy are crucial indicators of transcription ability.
Yuan Ding, Liping Li, Xinchun Wu
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Biomolecules, 2022 Previous studies have shown that atypical dopamine-transporter-inhibitors such as modafinil and its analogues modify behavioral and cognitive functions in rodents.
Karl Ebner +9 more
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Converging Cognitive Enhancements [PDF]
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006 Abstract: Cognitive enhancement, the amplification or extension of core capacities of the mind, has become a major topic in bioethics. But cognitive enhancement is a prime example of a converging technology where individual disciplines merge and issues transcend particular local discourses.
Sandberg, A, Bostrom, N
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The likelihood of cognitive enhancement [PDF]
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 2011 Whether drugs that enhance cognition in healthy individuals will appear in the near future has become a topic of considerable interest. We address this possibility using a three variable system (psychological effect, neurobiological mechanism, and efficiency vs. capabilities) for classifying candidates.
Gary, Lynch +2 more
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Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2021 This study aimed to describe patterns of use and attitudes towards a broad variety of substances for improving academic performance at a New Zealand university. 685 students (from 1800 invited) completed an online questionnaire (38% response rate).
Anantha Narayanan +11 more
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Cognition Enhancers in Age-Related Cognitive Decline [PDF]
Drugs & Aging, 1996 A review of recently published studies on the effect of cognition enhancers in non-demented human study participants is presented. The heterogeneity of the therapeutic target, age-associated cognitive decline, can be improved by separately treating groups in whom age-extrinsic factors may underlie cognitive pathology.
Riedel, Wim J., Jolles, Jellemer
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Improving Methodological Standards in Behavioral Interventions for Cognitive Enhancement [PDF]
, 2019 There is substantial interest in the possibility that cognitive skills can be improved by dedicated behavioral training. Yet despite the large amount of work being conducted in this domain, there is not an explicit and widely-agreed upon consensus around
Ansorge, U +9 more
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The Neuroenhancement of Healthy Individuals Using tDCS: Some Ethical, Legal and Societal Aspects [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2014 Over the past two decades there has been increasing scientific interest in Human Enhancement, that is, the possibilities of expanding and enhancing the capabilities of healthy individuals with direct technological interventions into the body.
Toni Pustovrh
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Cognition-Enhancing Drugs [PDF]
The Milbank Quarterly, 2004 New drugs that enhance cognition in cognitively healthy individuals present difficult public policy challenges. While their use is not inherently unethical, steps must be taken to ensure that they are safe, that they are widely available to promote equality of opportunity, and that individuals are free to decide whether or not to use them.
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