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Theory about long and short-term memory questioned
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2009 |
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The long-held theory that our brains use different mechanisms for forming long-term and short-term memories has been challenged by new research from UCL, published today in PNAS.
Neural networks mapped in dementia patients
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Aug 20, 2009 |
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Different types of dementia show dissimilar changes in brain activity. A network mapping technique described in the open access journal BMC Neuroscience has been applied to EEG data obtained from patients with Alzheimer's diseas ...
New brain imaging method shows promise for epilepsy
May 21, 2009 |
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With 25 percent of his brain already gone, Clint Galster sat alone in a vaultlike room as doctors tried to figure out whether even more brain tissue could be taken out.
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Study uses brain scans to discover how children 'read' faces
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Oxford University scientists are using brain-scanning technology to understand how we learn to recognise and 'read' faces as children.
How the brain separates audio signals from noise
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Jun 10, 2008 |
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How are we able to follow a single conversation in the midst of a crowded and noisy room? Little is known about how the human brain accomplishes the seemingly simple task of extracting meaningful signals from noisy acoustic ...
Early brain activity sheds new light on the neural basis of reading
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Most people are expert readers, but it is something of an enigma that our brain can achieve expertise in such a recent cultural invention, which lies at the interface between vision and language. Given that the first alphabetic ...
Left brain helps hear through the noise
Nov 15, 2007 |
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Our brain is very good at picking up speech even in a noisy room, an adaptation essential for holding a conversation at a cocktail party, and now we are beginning to understand the neural interactions that underlie this ability. ...
Practice builds brain connections for babies learning language, how to speak
Jul 11, 2006 |
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Experience, as the old saying goes, is the best teacher. And experience seems to play an important early role in how infants learn to understand and produce language.
Parental instinct found in the brain
Feb 27, 2008 |
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A possible basis for parental instinct has been found in the brain, according to a team led by Oxford University scientists.
Zeroing in on the brain's speech 'receiver'
Jun 20, 2007 |
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A particular resonance pattern in the brain’s auditory processing region appears to be key to its ability to discriminate speech, researchers have found. They found that the inherent rhythm of neural activity called “theta ...
World-first device may help solve child language mystery
Oct 07, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are one step closer to understanding why children can learn languages far more easily than adults, thanks to a world-first device that allows scientists to measure the magnetic ...
60 second test could help early diagnosis of common brain diseases
Aug 22, 2007 |
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Until recently physicians have had to rely on time-consuming and uncertain behavioural examinations to diagnose the onset of brain diseases such as multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer's and schizophrenia.
Study: The new buzz on detecting tinnitus
Oct 03, 2009 |
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It's a ringing, a buzzing, a hissing or a clicking - and the patient is the only one who can hear it. Complicating matters, physicians can rarely pinpoint the source of tinnitus, a chronic ringing of the head or ears that ...
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