"Despite our idiosyncrasies in listening, the brain experiences music in a very consistent fashion across subjects, " said Daniel Abrams, lead author and postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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"Our coating method is simple, and it can be applied in the future in large-area manufacturing processes, " said Rui Zhu, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA Engineering and the paper's lead author.

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Alessandro Oltramari, a postdoctoral researcher and Christian Lebiere, both from the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon, suggest that this automated video surveillance approach could find applications both in military and civil environments.

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The next step is to figure out if stimulation also can help when recalling old memories, because that function can also be impaired with dementia, according to Nanthia Suthana, the first author on the study and a UCLA postdoctoral researcher.

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It excels at both. (Disclosure: I was a postdoctoral researcher in the 1970s at NIH's National Institute for Child Health and Human Development.) The NIH should maintain those roles and leave the development and manufacture of commercial products to the private sector.

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Yian Gu, postdoctoral researcher in neurology at Columbia University Medical Center, who studies the relationship between diet and Alzheimer's, said the study looks promising if the claims of memory improvement hold up, but noted that further research should be done to confirm those results.

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