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Study suggests human visual system could make powerful computer
Jul 23, 2008 |
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Since the idea of using DNA to create faster, smaller, and more powerful computers originated in 1994, scientists have been scrambling to develop successful ways to use genetic code for computation. Now, new ...
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Blindsight: How brain sees what you do not see
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Blindsight is a phenomenon in which patients with damage in the primary visual cortex of the brain can tell where an object is although they claim they cannot see it. A research team led by Prof. Tadashi Isa and Dr. Masatoshi ...
Visualizing brain processes with new techniques
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The brain's magic is worked by neural circuits, where information is transmitted from one nerve cell to the next. In the heat of the summer, for example, our ability to relish an ice cream ...
Neuroscientists show insulin receptor signaling regulates structure of brain circuits
Jun 19, 2008 |
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[B]Impact of the signaling upon synapses and dendrites is shown for the first time in living creatures[/B] A team of neuroscientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated for the first time in living ani ...
Brain research shows past experience is invaluable for complex decision making
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 13, 2009 |
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Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have shown that past experience really does help when we have to make complex decisions based on uncertain or confusing information. ...
How You Feel the World Impacts How You See It
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Apr 03, 2009 |
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In the classic waterfall illusion, if you stare at the downward motion of a waterfall for some period of time, stationary objects -- like rocks -- appear to drift upward. MIT neuroscientists have found that ...
Seeing a brain as it learns to see
Oct 22, 2008 |
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A brain isn't born fully organized. It builds its abilities through experience, making physical connections between neurons and organizing circuits to store and retrieve information in milliseconds for years afterwards.
Visual detection: new neural circuits identified in the retina
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 14, 2009 |
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The detection of approaching objects, such as looming predators, is necessary for survival. Which neurons and nerve circuits mediate this function? A new type of nerve cell, sensitive to approaching motion, has recently been ...
How the retina works: Like a multi-layered jigsaw puzzle of receptive fields
Apr 07, 2009 |
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About 1.25 million neurons in the retina -- each of which views the world only through a small jagged window called a receptive field -- collectively form the seamless picture we rely on to navigate our environment. ...
Two molecules affecting brain plasticity
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Nov 25, 2009 |
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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.
Trigger for brain plasticity identified
Aug 07, 2008 |
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Researchers have long sought a factor that can trigger the brain's ability to learn – and perhaps recapture the "sponge-like" quality of childhood. In the August 8 issue of the journal Cell, neuroscientists at Children's Hospit ...
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