News tagged with neural activity
Study: Believers' inferences about God's beliefs are uniquely egocentric
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Religious people tend to use their own beliefs as a guide in thinking about what God believes, but are less constrained when reasoning about other people's beliefs, according to new study published in the ...
Where does consciousness come from?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 17, 2009 |
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Consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. Yet basic questions about the precise timing, location and dynamics of the neural event(s) allowing conscious access to information are not clearly and unequivocally ...
Aging impairs the 'replay' of memories during sleep
Jul 29, 2008 |
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Aging impairs the consolidation of memories during sleep, a process important in converting new memories into long-term ones, according to new animal research in the July 30 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findin ...
Robots show that brain activity is linked to time as well as space
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Nov 07, 2008 |
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Humanoid robots have been used to show that that functional hierarchy in the brain is linked to time as well as space. Researchers from RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan, have created a new type of neural network model ...
Scientists find how neural activity spurs blood flow in the brain
Jun 26, 2008 |
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New research from Harvard University neuroscientists has pinpointed exactly how neural activity boosts blood flow to the brain. The finding has important implications for our understanding of common brain imaging techniques ...
Involuntary maybe, but certainly not random
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Our eyes are in constant motion. Even when we attempt to stare straight at a stationary target, our eyes jump and jiggle imperceptibly. Although these unconscious flicks, also known as microsaccades, had long ...
A mother's criticism causes distinctive neural activity among formerly depressed
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Formerly depressed women show patterns of brain activity when they are criticized by their mothers that are distinctly different from the patterns shown by never depressed controls, according ...
Researchers find that the unexpected is a key to human learning
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 13, 2009 |
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The human brain's sensitivity to unexpected outcomes plays a fundamental role in the ability to adapt and learn new behaviors, according to a new study by a team of psychologists and neuroscientists from the University of ...
'Mind-reading' experiment highlights how brain records memories
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 12, 2009 |
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It may be possible to "read" a person's memories just by looking at brain activity, according to research carried out by Wellcome Trust scientists. In a study published today in the journal Current Biology, they show that o ...
Brain mechanisms for behavioral flexibility
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 15, 2009 |
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New research provides insight into how the brain can execute different actions in response to the same stimulus. The study, published by Cell Press in the April 16 issue of the journal Neuron, suggests that i ...
How to read brain activity?
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For the very first time, scientists show what EEG can really tell us about how the brain functions.
Childhood adversity may affect processing in the brain's reward pathways
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 15, 2009 |
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New research shows that childhood adversity is associated with diminished neural activity in brain regions implicated in the anticipation of possible rewards.
Babies see it coming
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 24, 2009 |
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Do infants only start to crawl once they are physically able to see danger coming? Or is it that because they are more mobile, they develop the ability to sense looming danger? According to Ruud van der Weel and Audrey van ...
Neuroimaging suggests that truthfulness requires no act of will for honest people
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 13, 2009 |
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A new study of the cognitive processes involved with honesty suggests that truthfulness depends more on absence of temptation than active resistance to temptation.
Rising above the din: Attention makes sensory signals stand out amidst the background noise in the brain
Sep 23, 2009 |
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The brain never sits idle. Whether we are awake or asleep, watch TV or close our eyes, waves of spontaneous nerve signals wash through our brains. Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies studying visual attention ...
