News tagged with cortex
Auditory illusion: How our brains can fill in the gaps to create continuous sound
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It is relatively common for listeners to "hear" sounds that are not really there. In fact, it is the brain's ability to reconstruct fragmented sounds that allows us to successfully carry on a conversation in a noisy room. ...
Two molecules affecting brain plasticity
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(PhysOrg.com) -- You wouldn't want a car with no brakes. It turns out that the developing brain needs them, too.
Road rage: Fuel vapor heightens aggression
Nov 24, 2009 |
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Outrageous prices may not be the only thing causing anger at the petrol pumps. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Physiology, has shown that rats exposed to fumes from leaded and unleaded gasoline become ...
Monetary gain and high-risk tactics stimulate activity in the brain
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Nov 17, 2009 |
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Monetary gain stimulates activity in the brain. Even the mere possibility of receiving a reward is known to activate an area of the brain called the striatum. A team of Japanese researchers report in the January 2010 issue ...
Turn On, Tune In, Develop? Researchers Examine How Brain Benefits From Musical Training
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 06, 2009 |
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For most people music is an enjoyable, although momentary, form of entertainment. But for those who seriously practiced a musical instrument when they were young, perhaps when they played in a school orchestra ...
New TMS clinic offers noninvasive treatment for major depression
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Rush University Medical Center has opened the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) Clinic to offer patients suffering from major depression a safe, effective, non-drug treatment. TMS therapy is the first FDA-approved, ...
Study reveals second pathway to feeling your heartbeat
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 02, 2009 |
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A new study suggests that the inner sense of our cardiovascular state, our "interoceptive awareness" of the heart pounding, relies on two independent pathways, contrary to what had been asserted by prominent researchers.
Researchers find brain cell transplants help repair neural damage
Oct 29, 2009 |
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A Swiss research team has found that using an animal's own brain cells (autologous transplant) to replace degenerated neurons in select brain areas of donor primates with simulated but asymptomatic Parkinson's disease and ...
Bad driving may have genetic basis, study finds
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2009 |
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Bad drivers may in part have their genes to blame, suggests a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.
Finding the seat of language? Researchers look into Broca's brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego, researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language -- word identification, grammar, ...
Sex-based prenatal brain differences found
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Oct 23, 2009 |
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Prenatal sex-based biological differences extend to genetic expression in cerebral cortices. The differences in question are probably associated with later divergences in how our brains develop. This is shown by a new study ...
Regulating emotion after experiencing a sexual assault
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Oct 22, 2009 |
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After exposure to extreme life stresses, what distinguishes the individuals who do and do not develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? A new study, published in the October 1st issue of Biological Psychiatry, sugges ...
Can we 'learn to see?': Study shows perception of invisible stimuli improves with training
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Although we assume we can see everything in our field of vision, the brain actually picks and chooses the stimuli that come into our consciousness. A new study in the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology's ...
Neuroscientists find neural stopwatch in the brain
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Keeping track of time is one of the brain's most important tasks. As the brain processes the flood of sights and sounds it encounters, it must also remember when each event occurred. But how ...
Looming sounds boost visual perception
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Oct 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether it’s the sound of a speeding car approaching from out of the blue, or the faint echo of footsteps following you along a dark street, such looming sounds not only make our ears prick ...
