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Brain processes written words as unique 'objects'
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Apr 29, 2009 |
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A new study provides direct experimental evidence that a brain region important for reading and word recognition contains neurons that are highly selective for individual real words. The research, published by Cell Press ...
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Scientists make progress in determining how the brain selectively interprets sound
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Jan 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have reported new findings about how the mammalian brain interprets and fashions representations of sound that may help explain how we are able to focus on one particular sound ...
Learning to evolve: With a little help from my ancestors
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Jul 30, 2007 |
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Learning to fly is easy, if you are a bird. But why is it that birds learn so easily how to fly" It is well known that birds learn through practice, and that they gradually refine their innate ability into a finely tuned ...
Imaging the hypnotized brain: Neural mechanisms of suggested paralysis
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Jun 24, 2009 |
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Although there is no doubt that hypnosis can impact the mind and behavior, the underlying brain mechanisms are not well understood. Now, new research provides fascinating insight into the specific neural effect of the power ...
Moths with a Nose for Learning
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Oct 02, 2008 |
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Much like Pavlov conditioned his dog to salivate in anticipation of food when a bell rang, insects can be trained to perform certain behaviors when enticed with different smells. Researchers at the National ...
Cracking the spatial memory code
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Mar 12, 2009 |
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Researchers have shown that they can tell where a person is "standing" within a virtual reality room on the basis of the pattern of activity in the brain alone. The findings, published online on March 12th in Current Biology, a Cell ...
Birds learn to fly with a little help from their ancestors
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Aug 14, 2007 |
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A researcher at the University of Sheffield has discovered that the reason birds learn to fly so easily is because latent memories may have been left behind by their ancestors.
Mouse brain rewires its neural circuits to recuperate from damaged neural function after stroke
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Aug 21, 2009 |
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Japanese research group led by Professor Junichi Nabekura in National Institute for Physiological Sciences, NIPS, Japan, found that, after cerebral stroke in one side of the mouse brain, another side of the brain rewires ...
Study sheds light on social brain development
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Jul 15, 2009 |
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Children develop social skills by learning how to understand others' thoughts and feelings, or their theory of mind. A new study of EEGs of 4-year-olds shows that theory of mind changes are related to the functional development ...
Sense and sensibility in short-term memory
Feb 20, 2007 |
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More than three centuries ago, Sir Isaac Newton reflected on the similarities between the sense of hearing and the sense of sight. Newton’s speculations were impossible to test scientifically, until now. A novel Brandeis ...
Brain uses both neural 'teacher' and 'tinkerer' networks in learning
Jun 04, 2007 |
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While most people need peace and quiet to cram for a test, the brain itself may need noise to learn, a recent MIT study suggests. In experiments with monkeys, the researchers found that neural activities in the brain gradually ...
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