by Molly Gluck, Boston University Social transmission of memory. Credit: The Ramirez Lab Has a song ever reminded you of the past, and unexpectedly surfaced emotions associated with that specific experience or person from your memory? Does walking into Staples remind you of back-to-school shopping, even years after graduating? Or, have you ever been introduced...
Children diagnosed with dyslexia show greater emotional reactivity than children without dyslexia, according to a new collaborative study by UC San Francisco neuroscientists with the UCSF Dyslexia Center and UCSF Memory and Aging Center. In the study, published online in Cortex, children with dyslexia who watched emotionally evocative videos showed increased physiological and behavioral responses when compared to children...
