News tagged with electrophysiological evidence
That gut feeling may actually reflect a reliable memory
Feb 08, 2009 |
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You know the feeling. You make a decision you're certain is merely a "lucky guess."
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Neurons use chemical 'chords' to shape signaling
Feb 27, 2008 |
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Researchers have discovered that neurons can use two different neurotransmitters that target the same receptor on a receiving neuron to shape the transmission of a nerve impulse. Although the researchers’ experiments identified ...
Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology researchers have found the sound of the human voice can be recognised by the brain in less than one fifth of a second.
Sleep: Spring cleaning for the brain?
Apr 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you've ever been sleep-deprived, you know the feeling that your brain is full of wool.
Wired for sound: How the brain senses visual illusions
Apr 11, 2007 |
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In a study that could help reveal how illusions are produced in the brain's visual cortex, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have found new evidence of rapid integration of auditory and visual sensations in the brain. ...
With amino acid diet, mice improve after brain injury
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Neurology researchers have shown that feeding amino acids to brain-injured animals restores their cognitive abilities and may set the stage for the first effective treatment for cognitive impairments suffered by people with ...
New adult brain cells may be central to lifelong learning
May 23, 2007 |
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The steady formation of new brain cells in adults may represent more than merely a patching up of aging brains, a new study has shown. The new adult brain cells may serve to give the adult brain the same kind of learning ...
'Neurologger' reads bird brains in flight
Jun 25, 2009 |
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Using a "neurologger" specially designed to record the brain activity of pigeons in flight, researchers reporting online on June 25th in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have gained new insight into what goes t ...
Brain's 'sixth sense' for calories discovered
Mar 26, 2008 |
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The brain can sense the calories in food, independent of the taste mechanism, researchers have found in studies with mice. Their finding that the brain’s reward system is switched on by this “sixth sense” machinery could ...
Insight into dopamine role suggests new treatment pathway for Parkinson's
Oct 18, 2006 |
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Dopamine (DA) not only functions as a neurotransmitter, a chemical messenger between neurons by which one neuron triggers another, researchers have found. It also appears to coordinate the activity of a particular neural ...
1,700 UK scientists back climate science
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Fighting back against climate skeptics, over 1,700 scientists in Britain have signed a statement defending the evidence that climate change is being caused by humans, Britain's weather office said Thursday.
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