News tagged with brain hemispheres
A vast right arm conspiracy? Study suggests handedness may effect body perception
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 04, 2009 |
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There are areas in the brain devoted to our arms, legs, and various parts of our bodies. The way these areas are distributed throughout the brain are known as "body maps" and there are some significant differences in these ...
Brain takes just 200 milliseconds to interpret facial expressions
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University of Glasgow have discovered that it takes the brain just 200 milliseconds to gather most of the information it needs from a facial expression to determine a person’s ...
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Figures of speech -- understanding idioms requires both sides of the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Is it better to treat someone with kid gloves or to treat them carefully? Researchers in Italy have investigated how the brain recognises that the first phrase means the same as the second. Publishing in the ...
It's all in the footwork: New research sheds light on parrot intelligence
Sep 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You can tell how smart a parrot is by watching what it does with its feet, according to a new study by Macquarie University researchers.
Shape encoding may start in the retina
Sep 12, 2007 |
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New evidence from the University of Southern California suggests that there may be dedicated cells in the retina that help compile small bits of information in order to recognize objects. The research was conducted by Ernest ...
Game of two halves leads to brain asymmetry
Jan 14, 2009 |
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A tug-of-war between the two sides of the brain causes it to become asymmetrical, according to research published today in the journal Neuron. Asymmetry in the brain is thought to be important to enable the two hemispheres to spe ...
Linguist tunes in to pitch processing in brain
Feb 16, 2008 |
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More of the brain is busy processing pitch from language and other sounds than previously thought, according to a researcher in neurophonetics at Purdue University.
New map IDs the core of the human brain
Jul 01, 2008 |
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An international team of researchers has created the first complete high-resolution map of how millions of neural fibers in the human cerebral cortex -- the outer layer of the brain responsible for higher ...
Honeybee brain picks up on right scent
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Jul 27, 2006 |
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A honeybee’s ability to smell scent appears to be linked to the right side of its brain, according to a new ANU study that could show how right and left ‘handedness’ evolved in other species.
Blind man walking: With no visual awareness, man navigates obstacle course flawlessly
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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Researchers have demonstrated for the first time that people can successfully navigate an obstacle course even after brain damage has left them with no awareness of the ability to see and no activity in the visual cortex, ...
Neurobiologist proposes 'The end of sex as we once knew it'
Feb 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women are not from Venus any more than men are from Mars. But even though both sexes are perfectly terrestrial beings, they are not lacking in other differences. And not only in their reproductive organs ...
Musicians use both sides of their brains more frequently than average people
Oct 02, 2008 |
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Supporting what many of us who are not musically talented have often felt, new research reveals that trained musicians really do think differently than the rest of us. Vanderbilt University psychologists have found that professionally ...
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